Albumin (Human), albumin (human)

• Low blood volume (hypovolemia): people who need their blood volume restored and kept up, including people with acute liver failure and people on kidney dialysis who have shock or low blood pressure.
• Low albumin (hypoalbuminemia): people with low albumin who are very ill or actively bleeding, including after major surgery, with sepsis (a severe body-wide infection), after the first day of a serious burn, or with protein loss from infections such as peritonitis or pancreatitis.
• Heart-lung bypass surgery: people having heart surgery with a heart-lung machine (cardiopulmonary bypass), as an add-on, to dilute the blood before surgery or in the machine's priming fluid.
• Acute nephrosis: people with acute nephrosis (a kidney problem that causes protein loss) who have swelling (edema) that did not get better with cyclophosphamide, steroids or water pills (diuretics), as an add-on.
• Ovarian hyperstimulation syndrome: women with a severe form of ovarian hyperstimulation syndrome (a reaction to fertility medicines that causes fluid shifts), to help manage fluids.
• High bilirubin in newborns (neonatal hyperbilirubinemia): newborn babies with high bilirubin (severe jaundice), before or during an exchange transfusion.
• Acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS): people with ARDS (a serious lung condition), together with water pills (diuretics), to correct fluid overload and low protein, as an add-on.
• Fluid removal from the belly in cirrhosis (paracentesis): people with cirrhosis (scarring of the liver) who have large amounts of fluid removed from the belly, to support the heart and blood vessels afterward, as an add-on.

A prescription is required. Your prescriber decides whether Albumin (Human) is right for you.

IV infusion, given by a healthcare professional.

The label says albumin is usually given in a hospital. Your prescriber decides where you get it.

Read the Medication Guide and the full Albumin (Human) prescribing information, and ask your prescriber or our pharmacists about side effects. Our pharmacists are on call 24 hours a day.

Health plans often require prior authorization for Albumin (Human). Our intake team checks your coverage and works with your prescriber’s office on the paperwork before your first delivery.

Offices can call (844) 671-2600 or fax a referral to (844) 671-2601. Referral forms for each specialty are on our referral forms page.