FDA approves two monitoring changes for clozapine patients.(Food and Drug Administration)

From: Clinical Psychiatry News | Date: September 1, 2005| Author: | Copyright information

ROCKVILLE, MD. -- The Food and Drug Administration has approved two major changes to the schedule for monitoring people on clozapine for agranulocytosis: the addition of absolute neutrophil count tests to regular monitoring and a reduction in the frequency of testing after 1 year of satisfactory white blood cell counts and absolute neutrophil counts.

The revised monitoring guidelines are as follows: Before starting treatment, patients must have a baseline white blood cell (WBC) count and an absolute neutrophil count (ANC). This should be followed by a WBC and ANC test every ...

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