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Сердолект

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Pharmacological action

Release form

Indications to use

Route of administration

Side effects

Contraindications to use

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Сердолект – drug for treatment of schizophrenia. Сердолект 12 мг

Pharmacological action

Сердолект is a neuroleptic which is to derivatives of a fenilindol and has antipsychotic effect.

Active agent of drug – сертиндол.

Positive reviews about Serdolekta are connected with the fact that this medicine, unlike other antipsychotic means, does not influence prolactin level, does not render sedation.

Release form

Release Serdolekt in tablets.

Indications to Serdolekt's use

Basic purpose of drug – treatment of schizophrenia.

Route of administration

Time of reception of tablets does not depend on time of meal. Accept Serdolekt once a day.

Treatment of schizophrenia by means of Serdolekt begin 4 mg with a dosage. Each 4-5 days a dose can be increased until it reaches the level of 12-20 mg. Appointment of 24 mg a day is in certain cases allowed - it is the most admissible dosage.

Elderly patients before an initiation of treatment are recommended to undergo inspection for an exception of cardiovascular pathologies. The dosage to this group of patients is raised carefully. The same approach practices at treatment of the patients having a moderate or slight liver failure.

For patients for whom insufficiency of function of kidneys is diagnosed the scheme of treatment by Serdolekt can be not changed.

If was having rummaged in treatment, and it lasted less than a week, it is possible to continue therapy from the last appointed dose. If the break was more, selection of a dosage is carried out gradually, most often, by a titration method, and before an initiation of treatment carry surely out an electrocardiography. Сердолект 16 мг

Side effects

Сердолект can cause short wind, cold, difficulties with nasal breath, dizziness, spasms, various motive disturbances, hypotension, puffiness, Bouveret's ventricular disease and a hyperglycemia (seldom), a hamaturia, a leukocyturia.

There are reviews of Serdolekta causing increase in weight, dryness in a mouth, reduction of volume of the allocated ejaculate.

At overdose of a sertindol tachycardia, the muffled speech, drowsiness, tranzitorny increase in an interval of QT is observed. In this case drug is cancelled, wash out a stomach, give to the patient laxative and absorbent carbon, if necessary support breath. Dialysis is considered inefficient, drug has no antidote.

Contraindications to Serdolekt's use

Сердолект according to the instruction it is contraindicated at serious cardiovascular diseases, a hypertrophy of a cardiac muscle, arrhythmia, congestive heart failure, bradycardia, the acquired or inborn extended QT interval, at hypersensitivity, a heavy liver failure, during breastfeeding or pregnancy.

To children up to 18 years medicine is not appointed. For emergencies when at the patient with an acute mental disorder the nervous attack began, Serdolekt is not used.

It is not recommended to combine Serdolekt with the drugs having antiarrhytmic effect, belonging to the class IA or III – with Dofetilid, Amiodaronum, Sotalol, Quinidine; with the antipsychotic drug Thioridazine; with antibiotics Erythromycin, Gatifloksatsin, Klaritromitsin; with antihistamines Astemizol and Terfenadin.

Serdolekt's combination to lithium drugs, to Tsizaprid, Cimetidinum, Ketokonazol, Itrakonazol, Indinavir, to Verapamil and Diltiazem is also contraindicated.

The prices in Internet drugstores:

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Сердолект tablets of 4 mg 30 pieces

2100 rub.

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