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What is Mycophenolate?
Mycophenolate is an immunosuppressant agent indicated for the prevention organ rejection in patients receiving allogeneic renal, cardiac or hepatic transplants. Mycophenolate should be used concomitantly with cyclosporine and corticosteroids.
Reasons taken & Efficacy
| Reasons taken |
# of patients
Efficacy
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Major | Moderate | Slight | None | Can’t tell | # of patients evaluated by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Transplant rejection prevention | 220 |
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49 | ||
| Multiple Sclerosis MS | 52 |
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11 |
| Transplant rejection | 24 |
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3 | ||||
| Kidney Transplant | 11 | 0 | |||||
| Devic's Neuromyelitis Optica NMO | 11 |
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6 | ||
| Other | 9 |
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1 |
See all 498 patients currently taking Mycophenolate
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Side Effects
Dosages
Top 10 dosages based on patients currently taking Mycophenolate. See all 35 dosages ►
| 0 250mg as needed | 1000 mg all the time (24/7) | 2 500mg as needed | 360 mg all the time (24/7) | daily | 0.5 mL daily | 2 transplant daily | 4 mg daily | 8 mg daily | 180 mg daily | 200 mg daily | 250 mg daily | 360 mg daily | 400 mg daily | 460 mg daily | 500 mg daily | 540 mg daily | 720 mg daily | 750 mg daily | 800 mg daily | 840 mg daily | 900 mg daily | 1000 mg daily | 1080 mg daily | 1250 mg daily | 1440 mg daily | 1500 mg daily | 1750 mg daily | 2000 mg daily | 2250 mg daily | 2500 mg daily | 3000 mg daily | 3500 mg daily | 4000 mg daily | 250000 mg daily | ||
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33
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15
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140
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Stop Reasons
| Reason | # Patients | Percentage of patients | |
|---|---|---|---|
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Doctor's advice
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16 |
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Other
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14 |
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Side effects too severe
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13 |
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Did not seem to work
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10 |
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Course of treatment ended
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4 |
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Personal research
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1 |
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Expense
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1 |
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Change in health plan coverage
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1 |
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Not indicated
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1 |
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Adherence, Burden & Cost See details from patient evaluations ▼
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Patient Evaluations
See all 75 patient evaluations
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- Miss Meg Will
- Data Quality: 1 star
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- Sex: F
- Age: 22
- Organ: Heart
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Quality of Life:
- Mental: Mild
- Physical: None
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- Heart: 4y Transplanted
- See profile
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- Miss Meg Will
- 720 mg daily
- since Nov 11, 2007
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Efficacy
Moderate
for Graft Versus Host Disease (GVHD)
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Side Effects
Mild
- See full evaluation
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- loisa
- Sex: F
- Sensation: Mild
- Overall: None
- Cognition: mild
- Vision: mild
- Speech: mild
- Swallowing: none
- Upper limb: mild
- Walking: mild
- See profile
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- loisa
- since Sep 19, 2008
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Efficacy
Can't tell
for Multiple Sclerosis MS
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Side Effects
None
- Advice/Tips my advice is... well I don't know. I felt nothing to be honest, and as I was getting out from a clinical trial because I had a relapse and felt scared, Cellc... See full evaluation
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- Oneida
- Sex: M
- Sensation: Mild
- Overall: Mild
- Cognition: moderate
- Vision: mild
- Speech: mild
- Swallowing: mild
- Upper limb: mild
- Walking: moderate
- See profile
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- Oneida
- 3000 mg daily
- since Mar 10, 2009
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Efficacy
Can't tell
for Weakness in legs
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Side Effects
None
- Advice/Tips the expense. I will have to stop because my benefits will not cover after May See full evaluation
See all 75 patient evaluations
Report created on September 02, 2010.