The medicine "Isosorbide Dinitrate" is an antianginal nitro-containing drug that is used to prevent and treat angina pectoris.
Pharmacological properties
Isosorbide Dinitrate is a highly effective medication that allows you to treat coronary heart disease, stop angina attacks. The medicine has antianginal, vasodilating, coronary-expanding properties, causes vasodilation, lowers vascular tone. The drug reduces blood pressure and venous blood flow to the heart, shortness of breath, suffocation and blue skin with oxygen deficiency. Regular use of the drug reduces its anti-ischemic and antianginal effect.
The tool "Isosorbide dinitrate": release form
A medicine is produced in the form of tablets and an infusion solution. On the basis of the nitrate form data, special medical preparations are produced in the form of a spray, dosed sublingual aerosol, prolonged action of tablets, capsules, and also films that are glued to the gums.
The drug "Isosorbide dinitrate": application
The medicine is used for the prevention and relief of angina attacks, as well as recovery from a heart attack. The drug is prescribed for inflammation of the membrane inside the arteries, chronic heart failure, pulmonary hypertension. As part of a comprehensive treatment, the drug is taken with a pulmonary heart. Inhalation medication is used for angina attacks and heart attack. Intravenously prescribed for pulmonary edema, unstable angina. Often the drug "Isosorbide dinitrate" is taken instead of nitroglycerin to expand the lumen of the vessels with heart failure.
Contraindications
You can not use the drug with hypersensitivity, low blood pressure and increased intracranial pressure. The medicine is not taken for cerebral hemorrhage resulting from injuries, angle-closure glaucoma.
Intravenous injections are prohibited with constrictive pericarditis,
cardiac tamponade and hemorrhagic stroke. Caution is required to use the drug for liver dysfunction during pregnancy. Children are not recommended to take medication due to insufficient research.
Mode of application
The drug "Isosorbide dinitrate" is used orally after a meal. Four tablets are used throughout the day. Sublingual forms of the drug are placed under the tongue, to increase the effect, the capsule can be chewed. With regular treatment for a month and a half, you need to take a break, replacing the medicine with similar drugs. Intravenously (drip) the solution is administered slowly, from 1 to 5 ampoules are prescribed per day.
Side effects
Isosorbide Dinitrate may cause bouts of nausea, headache, or dizziness. With a decrease in the volume of the drug, these signs pass. During treatment it is forbidden to take alcohol.