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1257/2012 - Uso clínico e controle sobre a dispensação de talidomida em Brasilia-DF, Brasil, de 2001 a 2012.
Clinical use and control on thalidomide dispensing in Brasilia-DF, Brazil, from 2001 to 2012

Author:

• Francisco José Roma Paumgartten - Paumgartten, F.J.R. - RJ, RJ - Fiocruz - <paum@ensp.fiocruz.br>
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6207-0149

Co-author(s):

• Nair Ramos de Souza - Souza, N.R. - Fiocruz - <nairsouza72@hotmail.com>

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Assistência Farmacêutica

Abstract:

Thalidomide, a sedative drug and human teratogen, had been banned in the 1960s and re-entered the market with new clinical indications in mid 1990s. Contrasting to most countries, use of thalidomide has never been discontinued in Brazil where it is prescribed for Hansen disease type 2- reaction. A number of babies with birth defects compatible with thalidomide embryopathy phenotype were born after 1965, an indication that control on drug dispensing and use failed in the country. New rules on thalidomide dispensing and prescription were introduced in 2011. This article reports data on thalidomide dispensing and clinical uses in the Federal District in 2011/12, when new rules were put into effect, and data on drug dispensing and use obtained ten years earlier (2001). It was found that the number of patients making use of thalidomide declined from 819 in 2001 to 369 in 2011/12. Hansen disease accounted for over 70% of prescriptions in both time periods analyzed in this study. In the same time interval, however, use for lupus erythematosus decreased from 13.7 to 4.9%, while that for multiple myeloma increased from 2.9 to 20.3% of all prescriptions. Thalidomide prescription for remaining approved indications was far less frequent, and so was the use for off label indications that accounted for <1% of prescriptions in 2001 and 2011/12. Registration of prescribing doctors, patients and dispensing units at the state department of health, introduced by regulation put into effect in 2011, apparently turned control on thalidomide dispensing and clinical use more effective and reliable.

Keywords:

thalidomide off label uses Hansen disease drug control multiple myeloma lupus erythematosus

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Paumgartten, F.J.R., Souza, N.R.. Uso clínico e controle sobre a dispensação de talidomida em Brasilia-DF, Brasil, de 2001 a 2012.. Cien Saude Colet [periódico na internet] (2012/Aug). [Citado em 22/01/2025]. Está disponível em: http://cienciaesaudecoletiva.com.br/en/articles/uso-cliacutenico-e-controle-sobre-a-dispensaccedilatildeo-de-talidomida-em-brasiliadf-brasil-de-2001-a-2012/11057?id=11057&id=11057



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