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Additional Cardiac Monitoring for Patients on Mitoxantrone - from
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Sue Hughes
July 30, 2008 — The FDA has issued an alert informing healthcare professionals about additional recommendations for cardiac monitoring of patients with multiple sclerosis (MS) who are treated with mitoxantrone (marketed as Novantrone and as generics) [1].
In 2005, the labeling for mitoxantrone was changed to recommend that left ventricular ejection fraction (LVEF) be evaluated before initiating treatment and before administering each dose of mitoxantrone to patients with MS. These changes were established in response to postmarketing and case reports in the medical literature that described decreases in LVEF or frank congestive heart failure in patients with MS who had received cumulative doses of mitoxantrone that were lower than 100 mg/m2.
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Additional Cardiac Monitoring for Patients on Mitoxantrone - from Heartwire
— a professional news service of WebMD
Sue Hughes
July 30, 2008 — The FDA has issued an alert informing healthcare professionals about additional recommendations for cardiac monitoring of patients with multiple sclerosis (MS) who are treated with mitoxantrone (marketed as Novantrone and as generics) [1].
In 2005, the labeling for mitoxantrone was changed to recommend that left ventricular ejection fraction (LVEF) be evaluated before initiating treatment and before administering each dose of mitoxantrone to patients with MS. These changes were established in response to postmarketing and case reports in the medical literature that described decreases in LVEF or frank congestive heart failure in patients with MS who had received cumulative doses of mitoxantrone that were lower than 100 mg/m2.
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