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Suspicious papanicolaou smears (pap smears) and vaginal haemorrhage were reported as frequent post marketing events by patients with multiple sclerosis using Copaxone.

Multiple Sclerosis (MS) Drugs

Copaxone ®  Side Effects

(glatiramer acetate)

 

Menstruation and Abnormal Bleeding

 
Post marketing adverse event reporting lists the following as frequent events (occurring in at least 1/100 patients exposed to glatiramer acetate):

Amenorrhoea (absence or stopping of period); menorrhagia (abnormally heavy bleeding).

Additionally, suspicious papanicolaou smears (pap smear) and vaginal haemorrhage were reported as frequent post marketing events.

It is unknown whether these events are related to exposure to glatiramer acetate (Copaxone ®).

 

 

Reviewed July 2004

 

 
 

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