Daclatasvir/Digoxin 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:
The cause of the interaction is not known.
What might happen:
Your blood levels of digoxin may increase and cause toxic effects.
What you should do about this interaction:
Make sure your healthcare professionals (e.g. doctor or pharmacist) know that you are taking these medicines together. If you experience changes in vision, loss of appetite, nausea, vomiting, diarrhea, dizziness, weakness, or irregular heartbeat, contact your doctor. It may be necessary to adjust your dose of digoxin.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.
- 1.Daklinza (daclatasvir dihydrochloride) UK summary of product characteristics. Bristol-Myers Squibb Pharmaceutical Limited August 29, 2014.
- 2.US Food and Drug Administration (FDA). Drug Development and Drug Interactions: Table of Substrates, Inhibitors and Inducers. Available at: https://www.fda.gov/drugs/drug-interactions-labeling/drug-development-and- drug-interactions-table-substrates-inhibitors-and-inducers. Updated 11/14/2017.
- 3.Daklinza (daclatasvir) US prescribing information. Bristol-Myers Squibb October, 2019.
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