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Torvakard

Application instruction:

Pharmacological action

Release form

Indications to use

The instruction – a route of administration

Side effects

Contraindications

The prices in Internet drugstores:

from 292 rub.

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Torvakard – the drug which is applied to decrease in level of cholesterol.

Pharmacological action

Torvakard's use Торвакард в упаковке promotes reduction of quantity of lipoproteins of low density, apolipoprotein B, triglycerides, the general level of cholesterol.

Active agent of Torvakard – аторвастатин.

Release form

Torvakard release in tablets.

Torvakard's analogs: Anvistat, Atokor, Atomaks, Atorvoks, Atorvastatin. All these drugs contain the same active ingredient.

Indications to Torvakard's use

Torvakard appoint at primary hypercholesterolemia, a family and single hypercholesterolemia, a heterozygous family hypercholesterolemia, the mixed lipidemia which can be carried to the IIa or IIb type across Fredrikson.

In Torvakard's instruction it is specified also that it is possible to appoint him at a disbetalipoproteinemiya (the third type across Fredrikson); the increased serumal level of triglycerides (the fourth type across Fredrikson); family homozygous hypercholesterolemia.

There are good reviews of Torvakarda who is applied in complex treatment of the patients having cardiovascular diseases. Drug is effective as means of secondary prevention – it helps to avoid development of a heart attack, a stroke, a stenocardia attack.

Torvakard's instruction – a route of administration

Before the beginning and in the course of treatment the patient is recommended to keep to a hypolipidemic diet.

In an initiation of treatment appoint 10 mg of Torvakard once a day. In the course of therapy the dosage is raised – it fluctuates within 10-80 mg. Accept drug once a day, at any time. Torvakard's use does not depend on meal time.

At the beginning of therapy and at gradual increase in a dose it is necessary to control the level of lipids in blood each 2-4 weeks. An admissible dosage which it is not recommended to exceed – 80 mg.

At the mixed lipidemia and primary hypercholesterolemia in most cases for achievement of necessary therapeutic effect 10 mg of Torvakard there are enough.

The significant therapeutic effect can be observed only in two weeks of treatment, maximum – in a month.

Judging by reviews of Torvakarda, at long use of medicine the gained therapeutic effect remains.

The possibility of use of analogs Torvakarda has to be discussed with the attending physician.

Side effects of Torvakard

Torvakard's use can become the reason of an adynamy, drowsiness, a headache, Таблетки Торвакард depression, amnesia, dizziness, a peripheral neuropathy, nausea, anorexia, abdominal pains, a meteorism, a lock, pancreatitis, hepatitis, cholestatic jaundice, rash, itch on skin, spasms, dorsodynias, a mialgiya, a miositis, an arthralgia, an acute anaphylaxis, an epidermal toxic necrolysis, a hyperglycemia, a hypoglycemia.

Also there are reviews of Torvakarda indicating that he can cause baldness, weakness, increase in weight, a sonitus, impotence, thrombocytopenia, a secondary renal failure.

Contraindications

Torvakard according to the instruction is contraindicated at a liver failure, active diseases of a liver, a superactivity of liver enzymes, hereditary diseases (insufficiency of lactase, a lactose intolerance, glyukozo-galaktozny malabsorption), during pregnancy, a lactation, to children up to 18 years, at hypersensitivity.

It is undesirable to combine Torvakard and analogs of drug with ethanol. With care they are appointed to the patients who had earlier liver diseases, underwent a serious operation, an injury and that for whom such diseases are diagnosed: disturbance of water and electrolytic balance, arterial hypotension, heavy acute infection, uncontrollable epilepsy, disease of skeletal muscles, endocrine pathology, disbolism.

The prices in Internet drugstores:

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Torvakard of a tablet 10 of mg of 30 pieces

292 rub.

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