Olanzapine for Prevention of Vomiting in Children and Adolescents Receiving Highly Emetogenic Chemotherapy

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• Children with history of allergy to olanzapine or metoclopramide; patient with renal failure, congestive heart failure, or any uncontrolled disease except for malignancy; serum creatinine more than upper limit of normal (ULN) for age; serum aspartate aminotransferase (AST) and alanine aminotransferase (ALT) four times the ULN for age and serum bilirubin 1.5 times ULN for age; patient with history of central nervous system disease including brain metastasis, seizure disorder, or psychosis; patients on treatment with other antipsychotic agents such as risperidone, quetiapine, clozapine, or phenothiazine.

• The major inclusion criteria were children aged 5 to 18 years at the time of study entry with documented cancer; receiving NK-1 inhibitor (aprepitant/fosaprepitant) and 5HT-3 antagonist (ondansetron) and/or dexamethasone as prophylactic antiemetics for CINV due to MEC or HEC; minimum body weight of 10 kg; development of breakthrough vomiting after starting prophylactic antiemetics; Lansky performance scale of above 50 (for patients aged 10 years or less) or Eastern Cooperative Oncology Group performance scale less than 3 and normal electrocardiogram (ECG) before the initiation of the prophylactic antiemetics.