(5) In our study, despite being with lower coefficiency values, we found negative and significant correlations between the thicknesses of retinal layer measured at 1 mm distant to fovea centralis and drug consumption duration,
cumulative dose of drug, dose of drug per kilogram of actual and lean body masses.
In the current 116-patient study, the average
cumulative dose was 309.8 mg/kg in the high-dose group and 170.8 mg/kg in the low-dose group (P less than .000).
The possible associations with RNMB identified in our audit are also consistent with previous studies, which have shown that RNMB is associated with a higher
cumulative dose of neuromuscular blocking drug (13), a shorter interval between final dose and arrival in the PACU (13,14) and a shorter duration of anaesthesia (14).
However, deaths have been reported with
cumulative doses as low as 5.5 mg (2).
Using even the latter dose (1.5 mg weekly), achieving the mean
cumulative dose of 4015 mg associated with moderate to severe (grade 3-4) valve abnormalities cited in the NEJM study would take a prostate cancer patient more than 51 years!
"These patients were relatively young, their
cumulative dose was relatively low, and yet they still appeared to benefit from" leuprolide treatment, Dr.
In a multivariate regression analysis involving 162 SLE patients with osteonecrosis and an equal number of matched controls who had SLE but not osteonecrosis, the only independent predictor of osteonecrosis was a high
cumulative dose of corticosteroids; in the osteonecrosis group, it averaged 31 g.
So one can argue that relapse can occur as
cumulative dose of 120mg/kg was not achieved.
Consider the estimated response to
cumulative dose, adjusted for sex and birth year (Table 4): For all childhood cancers we estimated an increase in risk per mSv
cumulative dose of 2.8% (95% confidence interval [CI]: 0.8%, 4.8%) for the entire cohort and 4.0% (95% CI: 1.7%, 6.4%) for children with stable residence.
Patients and Methods: Patients who were started on doxorubicin-based chemotherapy during the study period and had completed at least 300 mg/m2
cumulative dose were included in this study.
The primary analysis indicated no association between the use of pioglitazone and the risk of bladder cancer and no association was found between the risk of bladder cancer and the duration of pioglitazone use, increased
cumulative dose of pioglitazone or the time since initiating pioglitazone.
The median dose of betamethasone decreased from 28 mg at baseline to 0 mg at the following visits, and the
cumulative dose after 2 years was 77 mg, which corresponds to less than 1 mg prednisolone daily.