Tenofovir/Selected Nephrotoxic Agents Interactions
This information is generalized and not intended as specific medical advice. Consult your healthcare professional before taking or discontinuing any drug or commencing any course of treatment.
Medical warning:
Moderate. These medicines may cause some risk when taken together. Contact your healthcare professional (e.g. doctor or pharmacist) for more information.
How the interaction occurs:
Both of these medicines may affect your kidneys.
What might happen:
Taking these medicines together may increase your risk of kidney failure.
What you should do about this interaction:
Let your healthcare professionals (e.g. doctor or pharmacist) know that you are taking these medicines together. Your doctor may want to check your kidney function.Your healthcare professionals may already be aware of this interaction and may be monitoring you for it. Do not start, stop, or change the dosage of any medicine before checking with them first.
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- 2.Viread (tenofovir disoproxil fumarate) Canadian product information. Gilead Sciences, Inc. January 11, 2008.
- 3.Viread (tenofovir disoproxil fumarate) US prescribing information. Gilead Sciences, Inc. December, 2018.
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