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Meaning of "entacapone"
Entacapone (verb): To administer or use the medication entacapone, commonly used in the treatment of Parkinson’s disease
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- A drug C₁₄H₁₅N₃O₅ that inhibits the breakdown of ʟ-dopa and is used in conjunction with ʟ-dopa and carbidopa in the treatment of Parkinson's disease. It is marketed under the trademark Comtan and when used in conjunction with carbidopa and L-dopa, under the trademark Stalevo.
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Entacapone is always given as an adjunct to levodopa treatment.
No dosage adjustment of entacapone is required for elderly.
Entacapone enhances the effects of levodopa.
In animal studies entacapone was excreted in milk.
Entacapone thus prolongs the clinical response to levodopa.
The safety of entacapone in infants is unknown.
Entacapone is a member of the class of drugs known as nitrocatechols.
No dosage adjustment of entacapone is required for older people.
Renal impairment does not affect the pharmacokinetics of entacapone.
Only traces of entacapone are found unchanged in urine.
Food does not significantly affect the absorption of entacapone.
They include entacapone and tolcapone.
A process for the preparation of entacapone.
Carbidopa and entacapone improve the antiparkinson effects of levodopa.
An extended release pharmaceutical composition of entacapone or salts thereof.
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Both levodopa and entacapone are rapidly absorbed and eliminated.
A particular embodiment comprises droxidopa in and entacapone or tolcapone.
Entacapone in high doses may affect the absorption of carbidopa.
Comtan is a medicine that contains the active substance entacapone.
Of patients taking entacapone have been shown to experience diarrhea.
The active substance is entacapone.
Entacapone may form chelates with iron in the gastrointestinal tract.
Usually the adverse reactions caused by entacapone are mild to moderate.
Entacapone safety and efficacy have not been assessed in infants or children.
Comtess is a medicine that contains the active substance entacapone.
Food does not affect the absorption of entacapone to any significant extent.
Entacapone in association with levodopa has been associated with somnolence and episodes of.
These occur most frequently at the beginning of entacapone treatment.
Entacapone therapy should be administered cautiously to patients with ischaemic heart disease.
Tolcapone was more effective than entacapone in the dorsal striatum.
Entacapone therapy should be administered cautiously to patients with ischemic heart disease.
The pharmacokinetic properties of entacapone are similar in both young and elderly adults.
There are no significant considerations for people with poor kidney function taking entacapone.
Caution is advised for mothers taking entacapone while breastfeeding or during pregnancy.
Such conditions have the drawback of partly degrading the final product entacapone.
Levodopa and entacapone may form chelates with iron in the gastrointestinal tract.
Prolonged or persistent diarrhoea appearing during use of entacapone may be a sign of colitis.
No interaction of entacapone with carbidopa has been observed with the recommended treatment schedule.
The prescribing information for these levodopa preparations is applicable to their concomitant use with entacapone.
Mg of entacapone.
Entacapone inhibits the COMT enzyme mainly in peripheral tissues.
The pharmacokinetic properties of entacapone are similar in both young people and older people.
The currently employed COMT inhibitors are tolcapone and entacapone.
Another problem with entacapone formulations is for the patients having swallowing problems.
How to transfer patients not currently treated with entacapone to Corbilta.
Entacapone Teva can only be used with conventional combinations of levodopa.
Elderly patients No dosage adjustment of entacapone is required for elderly patients.
Entacapone Teva is a medicine that contains the active substance entacapone.
How to transfer patients not currently treated with entacapone to Stalevo.
Entacapone Teva may make it harder for you to digest iron.
