Țară: Irlanda
Limbă: engleză
Sursă: HPRA (Health Products Regulatory Authority)
LEVOFLOXACIN HEMIHYDRATE
Pfizer Healthcare Ireland
500 Base Milligrams
Film Coated Tablet
2011-09-30
SUMMARY OF PRODUCT CHARACTERISTICS 1 NAME OF THE MEDICINAL PRODUCT Levofloxacin Pfizer 500 mg film-coated tablets 2 QUALITATIVE AND QUANTITATIVE COMPOSITION Each film-coated tablet of contains levofloxacin hemihydrate equivalent to 500 mg levofloxacin. For a full list of excipients, see section 6.1. 3 PHARMACEUTICAL FORM Film-coated tablet. Pink coloured capsule shaped, biconvex film-coated tablets debossed with ‘1’ and ‘4’ on either side of score line on one side and ‘T’ on the other side. The tablet can be divided into equal halves. 4 CLINICAL PARTICULARS 4.1 THERAPEUTIC INDICATIONS In adults with infections of mild or moderate severity, levofloxacin is indicated for the treatment of the following infections when due to levofloxacin-susceptible microorganisms: - Acute bacterial sinusitis (adequately diagnosed according to national and/or local guidelines on the treatment of respiratory tract infections, and when it is considered inappropriate to use antibacterial agents that are commonly recommended for the initial treatment of this infection or when these have failed to resolve the infection) - Acute bacterial exacerbations of chronic bronchitis (adequately diagnosed according to national and/or local guidelines on the treatment of respiratory tract infections, and when it is considered inappropriate to use antibacterial agents that are commonly recommended for the initial treatment of this infection or when these have failed to resolve the infection) - Community-acquired pneumonia (when it is considered inappropriate to use antibacterial agents that are commonly recommended for the initial treatment of this infection) - Complicated urinary tract infections including pyelonephritis - Chronic bacterial prostatitis. - Skin and soft tissue infections. Consideration should be Citiți documentul complet