Pharmacokinetics of a Standard Dose of Cytarabine in a Patient with Acute Promyelocytic Leukemia Undergoing Continuous A

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HEMATOLOGY Letter to the Editor

Pharmacokinetics of a Standard Dose of Cytarabine in a Patient with Acute Promyelocytic Leukemia Undergoing Continuous Ambulatory Peritoneal Dialysis Makoto Takeuchi,a Takahiro Yamauchi,b Isao Yoshida,a Ryo Soda,a Takanori Ueda,b Kiyoshi Takahashia a

Department of Internal Medicine, National Minami Okayama Hospital, Okayama; b First Department of Internal Medicine, Fukui Medical University, Fukui, Japan

Received August 21, 2002; received in revised form November 5, 2002; accepted November 15, 2002

Int J Hematol. 2003;77:196-198. ©2003 The Japanese Society of Hematology

for 3 days and cytarabine (200 mg/m2) by continuous infusion for 5 days. At that time, the patient underwent 4 CAPD exchanges with 1.5 L of dialysate containing 2.5% glucose, and almost no urine output was noted. Duration of myelosuppression with this regimen was 10 days for neutrophils (