Fdg Side Effects, and Drug Interactions - Fluorodeoxyglucose F18 Inj

Fdg Side Effects, and Drug Interactions - Fluorodeoxyglucose F18 Inj

SIDE EFFECTS

The [18F]FDG safety data base was evaluated for 374 patients. Of these, 245 were male and 105 were female. For 24 patients, gender was not specified. The mean age was 47.8 years (range under 2 to over 65 years). Eighteen patients were between the age of 0 and 2 years; 42 patients were between the ages of 2 and 21 years old; 213 patients were between 21 and 65 years old and 98 patients were not specified. A racial distribution is not available. In this database, adverse drug reactions that required medical intervention were not reported.

In a small, 42 patient subset of the 374 patients studied, 4 patients had transient hypotension, 6 had hypo- or hyperglycemia and 3 had transient increases in alkaline phosphatase.

DRUG INTERACTIONS

No information provided.