Successful Treatment of Cerebral Toxoplasmosis Using Pyrimethamine Oral Solution Compounded From Inexpensive Bulk Powder

A price increase of pyrimethamine tablets in the United States has made the life-saving drug difficult to acquire for hospitalized patients who need it most. We report the successful use of a pyrimethamine oral suspension compounded from an economical bulk powder in a patient with acute toxoplasmic...

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Autores principales: Hodgson, Hayley A, Sim, Taeyong, Gonzalez, Hemil, Aziz, Mariam, Rhee, Yoona, Lewis, Paul O, Jhobalia, Neel, Shields, Beth, Wang, Sheila K
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Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Oxford University Press 2018
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Brief Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5906922/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29693038
http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/ofid/ofy055
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author Hodgson, Hayley A
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spelling pubmed-59069222018-04-24 Successful Treatment of Cerebral Toxoplasmosis Using Pyrimethamine Oral Solution Compounded From Inexpensive Bulk Powder Hodgson, Hayley A Sim, Taeyong Gonzalez, Hemil Aziz, Mariam Rhee, Yoona Lewis, Paul O Jhobalia, Neel Shields, Beth Wang, Sheila K Open Forum Infect Dis Brief Report A price increase of pyrimethamine tablets in the United States has made the life-saving drug difficult to acquire for hospitalized patients who need it most. We report the successful use of a pyrimethamine oral suspension compounded from an economical bulk powder in a patient with acute toxoplasmic encephalitis. Oxford University Press 2018-04-18 /pmc/articles/PMC5906922/ /pubmed/29693038 http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/ofid/ofy055 Text en © The Author(s) 2018. Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of Infectious Diseases Society of America. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/ This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs licence (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/), which permits non-commercial reproduction and distribution of the work, in any medium, provided the original work is not altered or transformed in any way, and that the work is properly cited. For commercial re-use, please contact journals.permissions@oup.com
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Hodgson, Hayley A
Sim, Taeyong
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Jhobalia, Neel
Shields, Beth
Wang, Sheila K
Successful Treatment of Cerebral Toxoplasmosis Using Pyrimethamine Oral Solution Compounded From Inexpensive Bulk Powder
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title_short Successful Treatment of Cerebral Toxoplasmosis Using Pyrimethamine Oral Solution Compounded From Inexpensive Bulk Powder
title_sort successful treatment of cerebral toxoplasmosis using pyrimethamine oral solution compounded from inexpensive bulk powder
topic Brief Report
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https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29693038
http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/ofid/ofy055
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