Message Number: SG1249 | New FHL Archives Search
From: julie_fossa@yahoo.com
Date: 2002-09-03 21:02:34 UTC
Subject: Re: Megaesophagus
To: ferrethealth@smartgroups.com
Message-ID: <2773005.1031086954629.JavaMail.root@scandium>

Author wrote:
> For some reason I was under the impression that there is a condition
> for which Propulsid is so needed that it fit under the "Orphan Drugs"
> legislation, but I could easily be wrong.

That's very possible. My premie grandaughter was born with a birth defect that required them to re-arrange her insides and take a portion of her intestines out (they were knotted). She was put on the Propulsid and Zantac. Still takes the Zantac today, and she is 4 years old. For whatever reason, they took her off of the Propulsid when she was about 10 months old, if I recall correctly. I don't know when it was withdrawn from the market to compare that timing to.
Julie