Name: What can you do to prevent muscle cramps in patients on vismodegib?
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MD, PhD

What can you do to prevent muscle cramps in patients on vismodegib?

Skin Cancer

You so. Prevention of muscle cramps in patients on vismedjib can be accomplished in a variety of pharmacologic ways. There have been reports using amlodipine or other types of muscle relaxers as a way to minimize muscle cramps. I think the real game changer, though, came in a publication from 2018 from doctors in Arkansas, Tennessee, and New York that showed that lcarnitine dosed between 1000 to 2000 milligrams a day appears to really have quite a profound preventative effect in modulating the frequency of muscle cramps in patients on vismedjib. And that is one of the most common side effects that we see with patients on hedgehog pathway inhibitors.

What can you do to prevent muscle cramps in patients on vismodegib?

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