House Attending Rounds

[FootDocStudent]

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Dr House says: I prescribed to a multiple sclerosis patient a medication. Then the patient developed progressive multifocal leukoencephelopathy and died. BUMMER! What is the name of that medicine? 😕 Easy one!

 

[AGDPM]

Novantrone (mitoxantrone)

 

[dtrack22]

Natalizumab

 

[FootDocStudent]

Novantrone (mitoxantrone)

Dr House would say: I said it was easy. Sigh! Try again! What was your grade in pharm class???!!

 

[FootDocStudent]

Natalizumab

Dr House would say: Correct! Easy huh? 😉 You must have had at LEAST a B in pharm.

 

[dtrack22]

Only a first year. No pharm yet. Pretty easy to search for an ms medication that has been reviewed numerous times for having PML as a side effect.

 

[AGDPM]

Dr House would say: I said it was easy. Sigh! Try again! What was your grade in pharm class???!!

No pharm classes as of yet 🙁 I begin pod school at the end of this month. I just read what the NINDS and NIH had to say about PML. Those that have the JC virus, the virus manifest itself when the immune system is suppress. So when comparing MS medications I found that mitoxantrone suppresses the immune system. But I do admit I have a lot to learn.