Isosorbide Mononitrate (Page 3 of 3)
OVERDOSAGE
Hemodynamic Effects
The ill effects of ISMN overdose are generally the results of ISMN’s capacity to induce vasodilatation, venous pooling, reduced cardiac output, and hypotension. These hemodynamic changes may have protean manifestations, including increased intracranial pressure, with any or all of persistent throbbing headache, confusion and moderate fever; vertigo; palpitations; visual disturbances; nausea and vomiting (possibly with colic and even bloody diarrhea); syncope (especially in the upright posture); air hunger and dyspnea, later followed by reduced ventilatory effort; diaphoresis, with the skin either flushed or cold and clammy; heart block and bradycardia; paralysis; coma; seizures and death. Laboratory determinations of serum levels of ISMN and its metabolites are not widely available, and such determinations have, in any event, no established role in the management of ISMN overdose.
There are no data suggesting what dose of ISMN is likely to be life threatening in humans. In rats and mice, there is significant lethality at doses of 2000 mg/kg and 3000 mg/kg, respectively. No data are available to suggest physiological maneuvers (e.g. maneuvers to change the pH of the urine) that might accelerate elimination of ISMN. In particular, dialysis is known to be ineffective in removing ISMN from the body. No specific antagonist to the vasodilator effects of ISMN is known, and no intervention has been subject to controlled study as a therapy of ISMN overdose. Because the hypotension associated with ISMN overdose is the result of venodilatation and arterial hypovolemia, prudent therapy in this situation should be directed toward an increase in central fluid volume. Passive elevation of the patient’s legs may be sufficient, but intravenous infusion of normal saline or similar fluid may also be necessary.
The use of epinephrine or other arterial vasoconstrictors in this setting is likely to do more harm than good. In patients with renal disease or congestive heart failure, therapy resulting in central volume expansion is not without hazard. Treatment of ISMN overdose in these patients may be subtle and difficult, and invasive monitoring may be required.
Methemoglobinemia
Methemoglobinemia has been reported in patients receiving other organic nitrates, and it probably could also occur as a side effect of ISMN. Certainly nitrate ions liberated during metabolism of ISMN can oxidize hemoglobin into methemoglobin. Even in patients totally without cytochrome b5 reductase activity, however, and even assuming that the nitrate moiety of ISMN is quantitatively applied to oxidation of hemoglobin, about 2 mg/kg of ISMN should be required before any of these patients manifest clinically significant (≥10%) methemoglobinemia. In patients with normal reductase function, significant production of methemoglobin should require even larger doses of ISMN. In one study in which 36 patients received 2 to 4 weeks of continuous nitroglycerin therapy at 3.1 to 4.4 mg/hr (equivalent, in total administered dose of nitrate ions, to 7.8 — 11.1 mg of ISMN per hour), the average methemoglobin level measured was 0.2%; this was comparable to that observed in parallel patients who received placebo.
Notwithstanding these observations, there are case reports of significant methemoglobinemia in association with moderate overdoses of organic nitrates. None of the affected patients had been thought to be unusually susceptible.
Methemoglobin levels are available from most clinical laboratories. The diagnosis should be suspected in patients who exhibit signs of impaired oxygen delivery despite adequate cardiac output and adequate arterial pO2. Classically, methemoglobinemic blood is described as chocolate brown, without color change on exposure to air.
When methemoglobinemia is diagnosed, the treatment of choice is methylene blue, 1 to 2 mg/kg intravenously.
DOSAGE AND ADMINISTRATION
The recommended starting dose of Isosorbide mononitrate extended-release tablets is 30 mg (given as 1/2 of a 60 mg tablet) or 60 mg (given as a single tablet) once daily. After several days the dosage may be increased to 120 mg (given as two 60 mg tablets) once daily. Rarely, 240 mg may be required. The daily dose of Isosorbide mononitrate extended-release tablets should be taken in the morning on arising. Isosorbide mononitrate extended-release tablets should not be chewed or crushed and should be swallowed together with a half-glassful of fluid. Do not break 30 mg tablet.
HOW SUPPLIED
Product: 53002-1570
NDC: 53002-1570-3 30 TABLET, EXTENDED RELEASE in a BOTTLE
Isosorbide Mononitrate 30mg ER-Tablets
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| Labeler — RPK Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (147096275) |
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| Name | Address | ID/FEI | Operations |
| RPK Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 147096275 | RELABEL (53002-1570), REPACK (53002-1570) | |
Revised: 12/2020 RPK Pharmaceuticals, Inc.
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