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Promacta
Hi Sally,
It should have been very nice to meet you and discuss Promacta but I live in Sweden and only travel in my own car because I am so afraid of infections.
You know I have been waiting several years for reports on Promacta in MDS patients - many of us have low platelets and need treatment. Good that Don is participating!
In the report from Europe you can see that 7% of the patients got some kind of eye disorders - 2% was cararact, 1% dry eye, 1% blurred vision, 1% lenticular opacities and 1% other diseases.
2% is not much considering that the study patients had the autoimmune bleeding disease ITP. Many of these patients had been treated with Prednisone or similar drugs that can give cataract. The problem is that rats got cataract when they got large doses of Promacta and that is why they suspect that cataract could be an adverse effect.
Did they control Don's eyes before he got Promacta?
Kind regards
Birgitta-A
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