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At the FDA's request, Wyeth-Ayerst Laboratories withdrew fenfluramine, half of the wildly popular "fen-phen," and also dexfenfluramine, which is marketed as "Redux."
The search for studies included examination of prior meta-analyses and reviews, MEDLINE search (using the terms fenfluramine or dexfenfluramine, diet drugs, echocardiogram or echocardiographic, and valvular heart disease), and review of references of identified articles.
We first evaluated studies reporting echocardiographic prevalence of FDA-positive valvulopathy (mild or greater AR and moderate or greater MR) [ 2 ] among subjects who had taken either fenfluramine or dexfenfluramine (alone or in combination with phentermine) and in matched controls [ 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 ] . In most of these studies, echocardiograms were performed after the drugs had been discontinued and were read without knowledge of prior drug exposure by multiple readers (table 1).
Dr. Hopkins and Dr. Polukoff have been retained as consultants for plaintiff attorneys representing persons who have taken fenfluramine and dexfenfluramine.
In conclusion, we have estimated risks associated with use of fenfluramine or dexfenfluramine for developing FDA-positive AR and MR after correcting for two major sources of bias.
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