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Interações medicamentosas

Hydroxychloroquine + Pimozide

Gravidade: Contraindicada

Hydroxychloroquine and Pimozide: contraindicated interaction.

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Resumo

Pimozide has a marked QT-prolonging effect and hydroxychloroquine adds to this, increasing the chance of torsades de pointes and sudden cardiac death. Pimozide labeling cautions against combination with other QT-prolonging drugs.

O que esta interação significa em palavras simples

Hydroxychloroquine and Pimozide are not normally used together. Taking them at the same time is expected to cause harm or make one of them unsafe, so a different medicine is usually chosen for one of the two.

Hydroxychloroquine belongs to Musculoskeletal; Pimozide belongs to Central Nervous System.

Nível de evidência: Moderate

Por que acontece

Additive QT prolongation via hERG potassium channel blockade.

O que fazer

Do not co-administer; select an alternative antimalarial or antirheumatic agent, or a different antipsychotic, in place of one of the two.

O que perguntar ao farmacêutico

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Perguntas frequentes

Can I take Hydroxychloroquine with Pimozide?

MediHelp rates the interaction as contraindicated. Hydroxychloroquine and Pimozide are not normally used together. Taking them at the same time is expected to cause harm or make one of them unsafe, so a different medicine is usually chosen for one of the two. Pimozide has a marked QT-prolonging effect and hydroxychloroquine adds to this, increasing the chance of torsades de pointes and sudden cardiac death. Pimozide labeling cautions against combination with other QT-prolonging drugs.

How serious is the interaction between Hydroxychloroquine and Pimozide?

MediHelp rates it contraindicated, on a four-level scale (minor, moderate, major, contraindicated) based on published labels and references. What to do, in brief: Do not co-administer; select an alternative antimalarial or antirheumatic agent, or a different antipsychotic, in place of one of the two.

What other medicines interact with Hydroxychloroquine?

MediHelp also lists interactions of Hydroxychloroquine with, for example, Arsenic trioxide, Cisapride, Dronedarone. The full list is on the Hydroxychloroquine page.

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