Dr. Priti R. Patel

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  www.lowabram.com/news-content.cfm/Article/115011/In-Pen - [Cached Version]
  Published on: 7/13/2008    Last Visited: 7/13/2008  

  "We don't know what the problem is," but heparin remains the leading candidate as the cause, CDC investigator Dr. Priti Patel told the wire service.
  
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  Published on: 11/1/2007    Last Visited: 12/20/2008  

  "The last case was reported on January 31," said Dr. Priti R. Patel, a medical epidemiologist with the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, and a member of the investigation team that wrote the report.
  
  Published in the Dec. 4 issue of the New England Journal of Medicine, the report "describes the adverse reactions caused by the contaminant" and links it to a specific substance, Patel said.The reactions included a drastic drop in blood pressure, nausea and shortness of breath, starting within 30 minutes after the administration of the heparin.
  
  "There is a definite link between this contaminant and the patients who had these reactions," she said.
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  The heparin incident illustrates the importance of health providers reporting untoward incidents to regulatory authorities, Patel said."Public health always relies on providers to make these reports," she said.
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  SOURCES: Priti R. Patel, M.D., medical epidemiologist, U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta; Susanne Alban, Pharm.D., professor, pharmacology, Christian-Albrechts-University, Kiel, Germany; Dec. 18, 2008, New England Journal of Medicine

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  Published on: 2/2/2008    Last Visited: 2/3/2008  

  "We don't know what the problem is," but heparin remains the leading candidate as the cause, CDC investigator Dr. Priti Patel told the wire service.

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  www.goupstate.com/article/20080201/APA/802011011 - [Cached Version]
  Published on: 2/1/2008    Last Visited: 2/2/2008  

  "We don't know what the problem is," but heparin remains the leading candidate as the cause, said Dr. Priti Patel, another CDC investigator.

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  www.townhall.com/news/health/2008/02/02/cdc_drug_sicken - [Cached Version]
  Published on: 2/2/2008    Last Visited: 2/2/2008  

  "We don't know what the problem is," but heparin remains the leading candidate as the cause, said Dr. Priti Patel, another CDC investigator.
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  "We don't know what the problem is," but heparin remains the leading candidate as the cause, said Dr. Priti Patel, another CDC investigator.

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  Published on: 2/1/2008    Last Visited: 2/1/2008  

  "We don't know what the problem is," but heparin remains the leading candidate as the cause, said Dr. Priti Patel, another CDC investigator.
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  The recalled lots all came from a Baxter facility in New Jersey, but the components came from several locations, Patel said.

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  Published on: 2/1/2008    Last Visited: 2/1/2008  

  "We don't know what the problem is," but heparin remains the leading candidate as the cause, said Dr. Priti Patel, another CDC investigator.
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  content.nejm.org/cgi/content/full/NEJMoa0806450 - [Cached Version]
  Published on: 12/3/2008    Last Visited: 12/4/2008  

  David B. Blossom, M.D., Alexander J. Kallen, M.D., M.P.H., Priti R. Patel, M.D., M.P.H., Alexis Elward, M.D., M.P.H., Luke Robinson, B.S., Ganpan Gao, Ph.D., Robert Langer, Sc.D., Kiran M. Perkins, M.D., Jennifer L. Jaeger, M.D., Katie M. Kurkjian, D.V.M., M.P.H., Marilyn Jones, R.N., M.P.H., Sarah F. Schillie, M.D., M.P.H., Nadine Shehab, Pharm.D., Daniel Ketterer, M.D., Ganesh Venkataraman, Ph.D., Takashi Kei Kishimoto, Ph.D., Zachary Shriver, Ph.D., Ann W. McMahon, M.D., K. Frank Austen, M.D., Steven Kozlowski, M.D., Arjun Srinivasan, M.D., George Turabelidze, M.D., Ph.D., Carolyn V. Gould, M.D., Matthew J. Arduino, Dr.P.H., and Ram Sasisekharan, Ph.D.
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  Address reprint requests to Dr. Patel at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 1600 Clifton Rd., MS-A31, Atlanta, GA 30333, or at ppatel{at}cdc.gov>.

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  Published on: 3/13/2008    Last Visited: 3/31/2008  

  Within two days, physicians, dialysis centers, and dialysis supply companies flooded the CDC with reports of 50 similar reactions among adult dialysis patients in six states.

"We were already very concerned, but that made us more concerned," said Dr. Priti Patel of the CDC, which is trying to determine if there's still a problem now that most Baxter products have been withdrawn.

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  health.discovery.com/news/healthscout/article.html?arti - [Cached Version]
  Published on: 12/3/2008    Last Visited: 12/3/2008  

  "The last case was reported on January 31," said Dr. Priti R. Patel, a medical epidemiologist with the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, and a member of the investigation team that wrote the report.
  
  Published in the Dec. 4 issue of the New England Journal of Medicine, the report "describes the adverse reactions caused by the contaminant" and links it to a specific substance, Patel said. The reactions included a drastic drop in blood pressure, nausea and shortness of breath, starting within 30 minutes after the administration of the heparin.
  
  "There is a definite link between this contaminant and the patients who had these reactions," she said.
  ...
  The heparin incident illustrates the importance of health providers reporting untoward incidents to regulatory authorities, Patel said. "Public health always relies on providers to make these reports," she said.

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