Dosing
CrCl > 80: 100 - 200 mg test dose then 1 gm IV.
Important side effects
Urticaria, papular eruptions, acute renal failure, elevated hepatic enzymes, fever and chills, headache, metallic taste, paresthesia, neuropathy, and fatigue, leukopenia, agranulocytosis, thrombocytopenia, coagulopathy, anemia, marrow depression, and increased prothrombin time, optic atrophy, pruritus, shock(common), elevated bilirubin, elevated transaminase levels, and elevated hepatic enzymes are described with the administration of suramin., rash, pruritus, urticaria, papular eruption.
Important drug interactions
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Last update 11/30/19