'Vazocardin' preparation: instructions for use

The drug "Vazocardin" instructions for use refers to the category of beta-blockers. The active substance is metoprolol tartrate. The drug is available in tablet form.

The drug "Vazocardin" (reviews of patients and doctors testify about this) is quite an effective tool used at increased pressure. The undoubted advantage of the facility is its affordable cost.

The drug helps reduce myocardial oxygen demand. With arterial hypertension, the drug "Vasocardin" lowers the systolic (after a few weeks of treatment), the diastolic pressure. In addition, the drug helps to reduce cardiac output, excitability and contractility of the myocardium.

The drug "Vazocardin" is recommended for arrhythmias, hyperthyroidism, myocardial infarction, hyperkinetic cardiac syndrome, arterial hypertension. The drug is also prescribed for the prevention of migraine attacks, angina pectoris.

Dosing regimen

The "Vazocardin" medication is recommended for use at the same time every day after a meal. Inside appoint one hundred milligrams twice a day. If necessary, in agreement with the doctor, the amount of medication taken may be doubled.

When hyperthyroidism is recommended, one hundred fifty to two hundred milligrams per day, divided into three or four receptions.

The maintenance dosage for myocardial infarction is up to 200 mg (in the evenings and in the mornings).

The maximum allowable amount of medication per day is four hundred milligrams.

The "Vazocardin" medication does not allow the use instructions for labile insulin-dependent diabetes mellitus, COPD, sinus bradycardia, peripheral vascular pathologies, decompensated heart failure, cardiogenic shock, and atrioventricular cardiac blockade. The drug is not recommended for hypersensitivity and metabolic acidosis.

To side effects when taking the drug "Vazocardin" instructions for use include allergic reactions, visual impairment, Raynaud's syndrome, heart failure, hypotension. In some cases, when the drug was used, there were dyspeptic phenomena, headaches, dizziness. The drug "Vazocardin" can provoke shortness of breath, depression, bradycardia, insomnia, weakness.

Interaction with other drugs

The drug "Vasocardine" is able to enhance the effect of hypoglycemic and antihypertensive agents.

Aggravated bradycardia and hypotension with the simultaneous use of the drug "Vazocardine" with antiarrhythmic medications.

Antihypertensive property is enhanced when combined with oral contraceptives, diuretics, nitroglycerin, barbiturates, tricyclic antidepressants.

The concentration of metoprolol tartrate (the active substance of the drug "Vasocardin") in the blood increases due to cimetidine, decreases due to rifampicin.

Overdose is manifested by arterial hypotension, cardiogenic shock, acute heart failure, generalized seizures, loss of consciousness, vomiting, bronchospasm, shortness of breath.

Symptomatic therapy is indicated in such situations. In conduction disorders and bradycardia, intravenously bolus drug "Atropine" (0.5-2 mg) is used, with decreasing myocardial contractility - intravenous administration of "Glucagon" first 1-10 mg, then two - two and a half milligram per hour drip, for Withdrawal of the convulsive syndrome shows intravenous infusion of the drug "Diazepam".

It is necessary to consult the doctor before using Vazocardin and carefully read the instructions.