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Amlodipin Indications
- Hypertension.
- Chronic stable angina.
- Vasospastic stenocrdia / angina (Prinzmetal angina).
Contraindications
- Known hypersensitivity to dihydropyridines, amlodipine or to any other component of the drug.
- Hypotension severe.
- Shock (including cardiogenic shock).
- Obstruction output tract of the left ventricle (aortic stenosis such as severe).
- Hemodynamically unstable heart failure after acute myocardial infarction.
Dosage & Administration
Adults.
Typically, treatment of hypertension and angina, the recommended starting dose of 5 mg amlodipine preparatustanovyt 1 per day. Depending on the patient's response to therapy dose can be increased to a maximum dose of 10 mg 1 time a day.
Patients with angina drug may be used as monotherapy or in combination with other antianginal drugs in resistance to nitrates and / or adequate doses of β-blockers.
There is experience with the drug in combination with thiazide diuretics, α-blockers, β-blockers or angiotensin-converting enzyme inhibitors in patients with hypertension.
No need for dose selection, while the use of thiazide diuretics, β-blockers and angiotensin-converting enzyme inhibitors.
Children under 6 years of hypertension.
The recommended starting dose preparatudlya this category of patients is 2.5 mg once daily 1. If you need blood pressure is achieved within 4 weeks, the dose can be increased to 5 mg per day. Use of the drug at doses above 5 mg for these patients not studied.
Elderly patients.
No need for dose selection for this category of patients. Increasing the dose should be made with caution.
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