Selected ARBs/Paritaprevir-ritonavir Interactions
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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:
This combination treatment for hepatitis C infection may increase the amount of heart or blood pressure medicine (candesartan, losartan, olmesartan, telmisartan, or valsartan) in your body.
What might happen:
The amount of heart/blood pressure medicine in your blood may increase and could affect your kidneys or lower your blood pressure too much.
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 lower the dose of your heart/blood pressure medicine, or more closely monitor your blood pressure and kidney function while you are on this hepatitis C medicine.Let your doctor know right away if you have lightheadedness, dizziness, or feel you might fall or pass out.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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