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출처: MHRA (Medicines & Healthcare Products Regulatory Agency)
Verapamil hydrochloride
A A H Pharmaceuticals Ltd
C08DA01
Verapamil hydrochloride
40mg
Oral tablet
Oral
No Controlled Drug Status
Valid as a prescribable product
BNF: 02060200; GTIN: 5025903001881
PACKAGE LEAFLET:INFORMATION FOR THE USER VERAPAMIL 40 MG, 80 MG AND 120 MG TABLETS verapamil hydrochloride READ ALL OF THIS LEAFLET CAREFULLY BEFORE YOU START TAKING THIS MEDICINE BECAUSE IT CONTAINS IMPORTANT INFORMATION FOR YOU. - Keep this leaflet. You may need to read it again. - If you have any further questions, ask your doctor or pharmacist. - This medicine has been prescribed for you only. Do not pass it on to others. It may harm them, even if their signs of illness are the same as yours. - If you get any side effects, talk to your doctor or pharmacist. This includes any possible side effects not listed in this leaflet. See section 4. 1. What Verapamil is and what it is used for 2. What you need to know before you take Verapamil 3. How to take Verapamil 4. Possible side effects 5. How to store Verapamil 6. Contents of the pack and other information WHAT VERAPAMIL IS AND WHAT IT IS USED FOR Verapamil is a calcium channel blocker, which expands your blood vessels to allow more blood to flow through them. It also acts on the nerve signals passing through the heart muscle, which can help to correct certain types of abnormal heart rhythm. Verapamil is used: - to prevent or treat angina (chest pain) and certain abnormal heart rhythms - to treat high blood pressure. WHAT YOU NEED TO KNOW BEFORE YOU TAKE VERAPAMIL DO NOT TAKE VERAPAMIL - if you are allergic to Verapamil or any of the other ingredients of this medicine (listed in section 6). - if you have a very slow heart-beat of less than 50 beats per minute. - if you suffer from heart problems including sick sinus syndrome (causing a slow heart rate). - if you suffer Lown-Ganong-Levine or Wolff-Parkinson-White syndrome (causing palpitations). - if you have had a heart attack which has been followed by a slow heart rate, low blood pressure or breathlessness. - if you have very low blood pressure due to heart problems. - if you have a WEAK HEART (causing breathlessness and tiredness). - if you have problems of conduction in the heart such as sino atrial block and 전체 문서 읽기
SUMMARY OF PRODUCT CHARACTERISTICS 1 NAME OF THE MEDICINAL PRODUCT VERAPAMIL TABLETS BP 40mg 2 QUALITATIVE AND QUANTITATIVE COMPOSITION Each tablet contains 40mg Verapamil Hydrochloride PhEur. Excipient with known effect Sunset yellow aluminium lake (E110) For the full list of excipients, see section 6.1 3 PHARMACEUTICAL FORM Yellow film-coated tablets. Yellow, circular, biconvex film-coated tablets, impressed “C” on one face and the identifying letters “VR” on the reverse. Tablet diameter: 6.18-6.82mm. 4 CLINICAL PARTICULARS 4.1 THERAPEUTIC INDICATIONS 1) The management of mild to moderate hypertension and renal hypertension, used alone or in combination with other antihypertensive therapy (see section 4.3 for warning regarding concomitant administration with beta-blockers). 2) For the management and prophylaxis of angina pectoris (including variant angina). 3) The treatment and prophylaxis of paroxysmal supraventricular tachycardia and the reduction of the ventricular rate in atrial fibrillation/flutter. Verapamil should not be used for atrial fibrillation/flutter in patients with Wolff-Parkinson-White syndrome (see section 4.4). _4.2 _ _POSOLOGY AND METHOD OF ADMINISTRATION _ Posology _Adults: _ _Hypertension:_ 240mg verapamil daily. For patients new to verapamil therapy, the physician should consider halving the initial dose to 120mg. Most patients respond to 240mg daily given as a single dose. If control is not achieved after a period of at least one week, the dosage may be increased to a maximum of 480mg (in divided doses of 240mg in the morning and 240mg in the evening, at an interval of about twelve hours). A further reduction in blood pressure may be acheived by combining verapamil with other antihypertensive agents, in particular diuretics. 120mg may be used for dose titration purposes. _ _ _Angina pectoris:_ 120mg twice daily. A small number of patients respond to a lower dose and where indictaed, adjustment down to 120mg daily could be made. 120mg may be used for dose titration purposes. _ _ _ 전체 문서 읽기