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Bristol-Myers Squibb Pharmaceutical Limited

Watery Lane, Swords, Co. Dublin,
Telephone: 1 800 749 749
Medical Information Direct Line: Freephone: 1 800 749 749
Medical Information e-mail: Medical.information@bms.com
Summary of Product Characteristics last updated on medicines.ie: 01/07/2016
SPC Lipostat 40mg Tablets

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Updated on 01/07/2016 and displayed until Current
Reasons for adding or updating:
  • Change to section 4.4 - Special warnings and precautions for use
  • Change to section 4.5 - Interaction with other medicinal products and other forms of interaction
  • Change to section 4.8 - Undesirable effects
  • Change to section 10 - Date of revision of the text
Date of revision of text on the SPC:   24-Jun-2016
Legal Category:   Product subject to medical prescription which may be renewed (B)

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Section 4.4 “Special warnings and precautions for use”: conditions and treatments associated with an increased risk of muscle disorders are added.

Section 4.5 “Interaction with other medicinal products and other forms of interaction”: addition of interaction with macrolides.

Section 4.8 “Undesirable effects”: addition of tendonitis and 3 AE in the SOC “Skin and subcutaneous disorders”, namely angioedema, photosensitivity reaction and dermatomyositis.

Updated on 03/09/2015 and displayed until 01/07/2016
Reasons for adding or updating:
  • Change to section 4.4 - Special warnings and precautions for use
  • Change to section 4.8 - Undesirable effects
  • Change to section 10 - Date of revision of the text
  • Correction of spelling/typing errors
Date of revision of text on the SPC:   24-Jul-2015
Legal Category:   Product subject to medical prescription which may be renewed (B)

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$0Thefollowing was added:$0$0Section 4.4 - $0$0There have been very rare reports of animmune-mediated necrotizing myopathy (IMNM) during or after treatment with somestatins. IMNM is clinically characterized by persistent proximal muscleweakness and elevated serum creatine kinase, which persist despitediscontinuation of statin treatment.$0$0Section 4.8 - $0$0Musculoskeletal disorders:$0$0Frequency not known: Immune-mediated necrotizingmyopathy (see section 4.4). $0$0The following error was corrected:$0$05.3Preclinical safety data$0$0.....$0$0 Inmice, a 2-year carcinogenicity study with pravastatin demonstrates that atdoses of 250 and 500 mg/kg/day (≥ 310 times the maximumhuman mg/kg dose) produces a statistically significant increases in the incidence ofhepatocellular carcinomas in males and females, and lung adenomas in femalesonly. In rats a 2-year carcinogenicity study demonstrates that a dose of100 mg/kg/day (125 times the maximum human mg/kg/dose) producesa statistically significant increase in the incidence of hepatocellularcarcinomas in males only.$0$0$0
Updated on 27/01/2015 and displayed until 03/09/2015
Reasons for adding or updating:
  • New individual SPC (was previously included in combined SPC)
Date of revision of text on the SPC:  
Legal Category:   Product subject to medical prescription which may be renewed (B)

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Active Ingredients

 
   Pravastatin Sodium