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Amiodarone

Cholesterol, heart med combo may cause muscle damage

October 03, 2008
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has issued a warning that people who take the cholesterol drugs Zocor (simvastatin) or Vytorin along with the heart drug known as Cordarone or Pacerone (amiodarone) have an increased risk of suffering severe muscle damage. Cordarone or Pacerone are used to treat irregular heartbeat. The danger rises among those who take more than 20 mg daily of the cholesterol drugs. Though the FDA first issued a warning about this drug interaction in 2002, the agency ... Read more »

Expert & Community Posts

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Have You Forgotten About Iodine?
By Dr. William Davis , Health Expert

Many people older than 50 years still remember the days of goiters, enlarged thyroid glands that... Read more »

Health Guide

T4 test
...considerations Drugs that can increase T4 measurements include clofibrate, estrogens, methadone, amiodarone, and birth control pills. Drugs that can decrease T4 measurements include... Read more »
Iodine overdose
...non-food items that contain iodine. Poisonous Ingredient Iodine Where Found Amiodarone (Cordarone) Lugol's solution Pima syrup Potassium iodide Radioactive... Read more »
TSH
...Drugs that can affect TSH measurements include: antithyroid medications, lithium, potassium iodide, amiodarone, dopamine and prednisone. Veins and arteries vary in size from one patient to... Read more »
Drug-induced hypothyroidism
...cause hypothyroidism. Unusual causes of drug-induced hypothyroidism include nitroprusside, perchlorate, amiodarone, povidone iodine (Betadine), sulfonylureas, or even ingesting a large amount of... Read more »
T4 test
...dexamethasone, propranolol, lithium, iodine, methimazole, propylthiouracil, interferon alfa, interleukin-2, and amiodarone Additional conditions under which the test may be performed: ... Read more »

Medications

Msd03110_48510_5

...3A4 substrates, inhibitors, and inducers such as amiodarone, cyclosporine, diltiazem,... Read more »

Myn00180_119121_5

...that remove metoprolol from your body (such as amiodarone, barbiturates including ... Read more »

Atr10900_122765_5

...that remove metoprolol from your body (such as amiodarone, barbiturates including ... Read more »

Tev03210_62959_5

...nonprescription/herbal products you may use, especially of: amiodarone digoxin Other... Read more »

Pd01550_63511_5

...protease inhibitors including indinavir/ritonavir, amiodarone, cyclosporine, diltiazem,... Read more »