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My Headache Is Gone, But My Leg Now Hurts

Fatal Forty DDI: methysergide, erythromycin, CYP3A4

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A Case Approach to Perioperative Drug-Drug Interactions

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Abstract

This case discusses the pharmacokinetic interaction between methysergide and erythromycin resulting in vasospasm. Methysergide is a cytochrome P450 3A4 substrate and erythromycin is a 3A4 inhibitor.

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Abbreviations

CYP:

cytochrome P450

5-HT:

5-hydroxytryptamine

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  1. Department of Anesthesiology, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN, USA

    Jessica D. Lorenz MD, Juraj Sprung MD, PhD & Wayne T. Nicholson MD, PharmD, MSc

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Editors and Affiliations

  1. Anesthesia Services Department, Philadelphia Veterans Affairs Med Center, Philadelphia, PA, USA

    Catherine Marcucci MD

  2. Department of Anesthesiology, Oregon Health and Science University, Portland, OR, USA

    Michael P. Hutchens MD

  3. Department of Anesthesiology, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN, USA

    Erica D. Wittwer MD, PhD , Toby N. Weingarten MD , Juraj Sprung MD, PhD  & Wayne T. Nicholson MD, PharmD, MSc , ,  & 

  4. Department of Anesthesiology and Perioperative Medicine, Oregon Health and Science University, Portland, OR, USA

    Kirk Lalwani MD

  5. Department of Anesthesiology, University of Pittsburgh School of Med Liliane S. Kaufmann Building, Pittsburgh, PA, USA

    David G. Metro MD

  6. Department of Anesthesiology, University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, IL, USA

    Randal O. Dull MD, PhD

  7. Department of Anesthesiology, Perioperative Medicine, Oregon Health and Science University, Portland, OR, USA

    Christopher E. Swide MD

  8. Department of Learning Health Sciences, University of Michigan Medical School, Ann Arbor, MI, USA

    F. Jacob Seagull PhD

  9. Department of Anesthesiology and Perioperative Medicine, Portland, OR, USA

    Jeffrey R. Kirsch MD (Professor and Chair) (Professor and Chair)

  10. Department of Psychiatry, University of Maryland Medical System VA Maryland Health Care System, Baltimore, MD, USA

    Neil B. Sandson MD

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Lorenz, J.D., Sprung, J., Nicholson, W.T. (2015). My Headache Is Gone, But My Leg Now Hurts. In: Marcucci, C., et al. A Case Approach to Perioperative Drug-Drug Interactions. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-7495-1_67

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