Dosing of lovenox in obese patients

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Avatar f tn I had an ablation last week and am doing well, but am very beat up (low energy, black and blue, sore throat from TEE and polka dot bruises from Lovenox). My question is how long a time period is it usual to be on Lovenox? My doctor has said a full month. From my research, other than pregnant women, for all other conditions it says 2 weeks or less. I can't take coumadin due to a severe reaction to it.
Avatar m tn On the day before administration of the next dose, peginterferon--2b was undetectable in nine patients in group A (once weekly dosing). The same pattern was observed during the next 3 weeks of therapy. In group B (twice weekly dosing) peginterferon--2b was detectable at any given time point and higher than in group A (P between 0.01 and <0.0001). Viral load decreased in all patients within 2 days after the first dose of peginterferon--2b, but increased again on day 3.
Avatar f tn The authors also suggested that use of higher doses of pegylated interferon and ribavirin for extended periods might help overcome the lower response rates observed in obese patients. Weight-based dosing and longer treatment durations are currently the subject of considerable research, but the authors also suggested higher dosing based on levels of insulin resistance or amount of visceral fat, rather than body weight alone.
Avatar f tn If you are on triple therapy for genotype 1 and undetectable then your doc is following AASLD protocol for anemia management Anemia developed among recipients of both PIs. Hemoglobin decreases below 10 g/dL (grade 2 toxicity) occurred in 49% of patients who received a BOC regimen compared to 29% of those who received the SOC regimen, whereas 9% had a hemoglobin decline of <8.5 g/dL (grade 3 toxicity).
Avatar n tn 1) Have you ever heard of lovenox injections to prevent further clots in stents and 2) what are the risks from lovenox to her relatively healthy kidneys (after 30+ yrs of diabetes)? Thank you for your good advice. You were the only Dr. who said E.R.
Avatar n tn m just wondering has anyone else had a successful pregnancy taking Lovenox? Just really nervous and have alot of questions now. Should I go ahead and take the baby aspirin now or wait? The Doctor says we can try again in October.
Avatar m tn SBPH), a clinical-stage biopharmaceutical company developing novel therapeutics for the treatment of viral infections, inflammatory diseases and cancer, today announced that it has begun dosing the first cohort of patients in the ACHIEVE global Phase 2 clinical program evaluating SB 9200 in immuno-active, treatment-naïve HBV patients without cirrhosis.
Avatar n tn Yes, and no...I have trouble breathing quite often, but not particularly around the time of my period. I'm not obese and before this "thing" started getting as worse as it is now I ran 2.3 miles every other day.
Avatar n tn Unfortunately, there is no good data for any of this. One option, however, is to be bridged with heparin until the day of the surgery (heparin has a very short half life and can be discontinued few hours prior to the operation) and then restarted a day after his operation assuming that there are no complications. Some also advocate doing a TEE to see if there is clot in the left atrium and if so postpone the operation until it resolves.
Avatar m tn 7 compared with those with genotype 1, cirrhotic patients had an OR of 0.15 compared with noncirrhotic patients, and obese patients had an OR of 0.23 compared with normal and overweight patients. Hepatic steatosis was not an independent risk factor for response to antiviral treatment. In conclusion, obesity, only when defined as a BMI greater than 30 kg/m(2), is an independent (of genotype and cirrhosis) negative predictor of response to hepatitis C treatment. Retrieved from http://www.ncbi.
Avatar m tn The nadir lymphocyte count, but not the nadir neutrophil count, was associated with the increased risk for infections in the Individualized Dosing Efficacy vs. Flat Dosing to Assess Optimal Pegylated Interferon Therapy (IDEAL) study.
Avatar f tn Blood oxygen levels are not a botheration at this time but you should concentrate on losing some weight. Weight reduction, if you are overweight or obese, is the optimal health strategy for patients who suffer from COPD. This can be done through a combination of diet, an increase in physical activity and sometimes medication. Weight reduction can help reduce dyspnea, increase exercise tolerance and improve your quality of life.
Avatar n tn First thing is to make clear that hypothyroidism is not just "inadequate thyroid hormone" accurately detected by the pituitary, which then secretes TSH to stimulate the thyroid gland to produce more hormone. The correct definition is "insufficient T3 effect in tissue throughout the body due to inadequate supply of, or response to, thyroid hormone". This is a very important difference since there are numerous variables that affect the response to thyroid hormone.
Avatar n tn The phrase means the echo window is of poor quality. The problem becomes more evident in some patient categories, such as obese patients, those with chronic bronchopneumopathy or those patients in intensive care, for which for various reasons the acoustic window is suboptimal.
505907 tn?1258369340 The reason I write here is in the mini - chapter about health they state that 50% of bipolar patients are obese. 50%! I've been on line investigating this study but I can't exactly replicate that statistic. On http://pmbcii.psy.cmu.edu/fagiolini/2002_Fagiolini.pdf Pfizer maintains that 32% of BP patients in their study were obese. Well, which is it? How do you feel about this "statistic"?
Avatar n tn Some surgeons request that a patient not be on plavix or warfarin at the time of surgery in order to minimize the risk of bleeding. Traditionally, the effects of plavix on platelets is minimal after 5 days. Usually, blood clots normally about three days after taking warfarin. This is quite variable and can be confirmed by a blood test (either checking INR or prothrombin time), prior to surgery.
Avatar m tn 2 mg/kg in Cohort 1, demonstrating a dose-response seen with repeat dosing. In Cohort 2, three of the five patients who received three doses of ARB-1467 experienced a greater than 1 log10 IU/mL reduction in serum HBsAg. The Company plans to add another cohort to this study to explore bi-weekly administration of the 0.4 mg/kg dose. The mean serum HBsAg reduction is the nadir value of the arithmetic mean of all values observed at each time point.
1476285 tn?1287337784 When RBV is combined with PEG-IFN alpha-2a, relatively small reductions to 800 mg/day lead to significantly lower rates of SVR (5). Similarly, a large comparative trial of fixed-dose RBV compared with weight-based dosing in combination with PEG-IFN alpha-2b demonstrated that stratifying patients of all genotypes to receive starting doses ranging from 800-1400 mg/day depending on weight effects higher SVR rates than using a fixed dose of 800 mg/day for all patients (7).
Avatar m tn This drug has a half life of 3-7 hours. Half life of a drug is the time it takes for 50% of the drug to be excreted by the body. Based on a 50mg dose there would be 3-4 half lives to excrete the drug. Max time of a little over 28 hours to have it completely gone from your system. If your symptoms continue, especially increased BP, you should give your Dr a call.
Avatar f tn s a common blood thinner for people with a-fib. I think the concern in the warning is that if you take too much of both that your blood will get too thin. As for eating green, leafy veggies - don't take this as gospel because I didn't have enough time to research it fully, but it appears that drugs like Warfarin/Coumadin and Heparin are the ones that you shouldn't eat greens with, but Lovenox does not have that same restriction.
Avatar f tn The safety and effectiveness of these dosing interval adjustment recommendations have not been clinically evaluated in patients with moderate or severe renal impairment, therefore 5 6 clinical response to treatment and renal function should be closely monitored in these patients [See Warnings and Precautions (5.3)]. There are no data to recommend use of VIREAD tablets 150, 200 or 250 mg or VIREAD oral powder in patients with renal impairment.
9648 tn?1290091207 2 mg/kg were compared with those with a dose /=13.2 mg/kg (n=84) showed a relapse rate of 19.0% in contrast to 71.4% in patients with a ribavirin dose of /=13.2 mg/kg ribavirin dosed group (59.5% versus 28.6%). Conclusions. Weight-adapted ribavirin dosing in combination with peg-IFN alfa-2a to avoid giving low doses of ribavirin should be evaluated. This will minimize relapse, especially in HCV GT 1 patients.
Avatar n tn That depends on your doctors comfort levels in prescribing , a patients ability to tolerate side effects, other medical conditions, effectiveness of using opiates, but typically- most physicians will not prescribe over 90 to 100 MME mg dosing per day-(Morphine equivalent dosing per day)- and typically only for patients who have been on opiates for some time. MME dosing combines both long acting and immediate release types of opiates to reach 90-100mg MME daily.
Avatar m tn Preliminary evaluation of pharmacokinetics supports continuation of both the twice-daily and three times daily dosing arms in the study.