Your Messages Inbox
Most Viewed Abstracts
1. Report Shows Shift in Starting Salaries for Physicians 2. 2008 Exclusive Survey—Earnings: Good news for primary care income 3. Medicare pay-for-reporting effort draws fire from frustrated doctors 4. Debunking Myths in the US Healthcare System 5. Statins and cancer risk
Your Article Summary
See Latest ArticlesPotential for methotrexate exposure through contamination during parenteral use as an immunosuppressant
Internal Medicine Journal, 07/13/09
Wong LS et al. - Deliberate skin contamination and possible inhalation of a 25 mg MTX solution failed to show significant or quantifiable serum and urine concentrations to suggest MTX toxicity. Precautions to prevent contact with MTX designed for oncology protocols are unnecessary for the rheumatology patients or their carers using these much lower immunosuppressant doses for autoimmune diseases.
Related Articles
High-dose cytarabine plus high-dose methotrexate versus high-dose methotrexate alone in patients with primary CNS lymphoma: A randomised phase 2 trial
The Lancet, 11/05/09
Relevance Score: 97%
Comparison of neurocognitive functioning in children previously randomly assigned to intrathecal methotrexate compared with triple intrathecal therapy for the treatment of childhood acute lymphoblastic leukemia
Journal of Clinical Oncology, 11/09/09
Relevance Score: 92%
Methotrexate for maintenance of remission in Crohn's disease
Cochrane Reviews, 10/27/09
Relevance Score: 90%
Effect of allopurinol versus urate oxidase on methotrexate pharmacokinetics in children with newly diagnosed acute lymphoblastic leukemia
Cancer, 10/26/09
Relevance Score: 90%
Clinical potency of methotrexate, aminopterin, talotrexin and pemetrexed in childhood leukemias
Cancer Chemotherapy and Pharmacology, 10/05/09
Relevance Score: 90%
Today in Adverse Drug Reactions...keeping you current
Receive free subspecialty "5-minute updates" via email
Incidence, Reversal, and Prevention of Opioid-induced Respiratory Depression
Anesthesiology, 12/17/09
Antiretroviral Medications: Adverse Effects on the Kidney
Advances In Chronic Kidney Disease , 12/17/09
Bilateral Acute Angle-closure Glaucoma in a Migraine Patient Receiving Topiramate: A Case Report
The Journal of Emergency Medicine, 12/17/09
Sponsor
Article Search
Sponsor
Sponsor