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Pharmacogenetics of morphine: Potential implications in sickle cell disease.
American journal of hematology - 1 Mar 2008
Darbari Deepika S, Minniti Caterina P, Rana Sohail, van den Anker John
Abstract excerpt
Morphine is frequently used to treat painful episodes associated with sickle cell disease (SCD) but may fail to provide adequate analgesia in many patients. This concise review focuses on unique disease related changes in physiologic variables associated with SCD that impacts pharmacokinetics and pharmacodynamics of morphine and may contribute to the variability in analgesia. Emerging evidence suggests that the...
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