البلد: أستراليا
اللغة: الإنجليزية
المصدر: Department of Health (Therapeutic Goods Administration)
Fluvoxamine maleate
Aspen Pharma Pty Ltd
Medicine Registered
FAVERIN ® - Consumer Medicine Information Page 1 of 5 FAVERIN ® TABLETS _fluvoxamine maleate _ CONSUMER MEDICINE INFORMATION (CMI) WHAT IS IN THIS LEAFLET THIS LEAFLET ANSWERS SOME OF THE COMMON QUESTIONS ABOUT FAVERIN. It does not contain all of the available information. It does not take the place of talking to your doctor or pharmacist. PLEASE READ THIS LEAFLET BEFORE YOU START TAKING FAVERIN. If you are helping someone else take FAVERIN, please read this leaflet before you give the first dose. All medicines have risks and benefits. Your doctor has weighed the risks of you taking FAVERIN against the benefits they expect it will have for you. IF YOU HAVE ANY CONCERNS ABOUT TAKING FAVERIN, ASK YOUR DOCTOR OR PHARMACIST. Your doctor and pharmacist have more information. KEEP THIS LEAFLET WITH YOUR FAVERIN. You may need to read it again. WHAT FAVERIN IS USED FOR FAVERIN belongs to a family of medicines known as selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors (SSRIs). It is used to treat depression in adults and a condition known as "Obsessive Compulsive Disorder" (OCD) in adults and children eight years of age or older. Both of these conditions are thought to be caused by a chemical imbalance in parts of the brain. FAVERIN corrects this chemical imbalance and may help relieve the symptoms of depression and OCD. Depression is longer lasting and/or more severe than the "low moods" everyone has from time to time due to the stress of every اقرأ الوثيقة كاملة
FAVERIN- Product Information Page 1 of 12 Faverin PRODUCT INFORMATION NAME OF THE DRUG Fluvoxamine maleate is chemically identified as (E)-5-methoxy-4 -trifluoromethylvalerophenone 0-2- aminoethyloxime maleate. It has the following chemical structure: CAS No. 61718-82-9 MW= 434.4 DESCRIPTION Fluvoxamine maleate is a white to slightly off-white, odourless, crystalline powder, sparingly soluble in water, freely soluble in ethanol and chloroform, practically insoluble in diethylether. It has a partition coefficient (n-octanol/water, own pH) P=38.7. Fluvoxamine is a member of a class of antidepressant agents known as selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors (SSRI). It is chemically unrelated to the tricyclic antidepressants, and to other serotonin reuptake inhibitors as it is a monocyclic compound. FAVERIN (fluvoxamine maleate) is available in 50 mg and 100 mg white, film-coated, scored tablets. The inactive ingredients are: mannitol, maize starch, pregelatinised potato starch, sodium stearylfumarate, colloidal anhydrous silica, hypromellose, propylene glycol, talc, titanium dioxide. PHARMACOLOGY PHARMACODYNAMICS Fluvoxamine has two isomeric forms: an E isomer which is pharmacologically active, and a Z isomer which is non-active. FAVERIN tablets contain only the E isomer. The mechanism of action of fluvoxamine is believed to be related to its ability to selectively inhibit presynaptic reuptake of serotonin, and thus increase the serotonin concentrations within the synaptic cleft. This is accompanied by minimal interference with the noradrenergic and dopaminergic processes. Unlike tricyclic antidep اقرأ الوثيقة كاملة