Ziagen And Warfarin Interaction

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Ziagen

Brand name: Ziagen Generic name: abacavir sulfate (abacavir), or ABC Class: Nucleotide reverse transcriptase inhibitor(nucleotide, NtRTI, or nuke) Manufacturer: ViiV Healthcare, www.viivhealthcare.com , (877) 844-8872 AWP: $670.37/month, $161.78 for 240 mL solution (20 mg/mL) Standard Dose: Two 300 mg tablets once a day (or one 300 mg tablet twice a day), with or without food, with no dietary restrictions; scored tablets...

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amprenavir (agenerase) and abacavir (ziagen) synergy

Is there in vivo synergy between amprenavir (agenerase) and abacavir (ziagen)? If so can you tell me how much the levels of the drugs are changed? Feel free to use terms like Cmax, AUC and Cmin. Thanks....

Response from Cal Cohen, M.D., M.S.

Harvard Medical School

I quickly checked my resources on drug/drug interactions and could not find any suggestion that amprenavir changes the drug levels of abacavir, or vice versa. (if anyone has any newer data, pipe up). That is what we are often calling in vivo... Read more »

Anything Wrong W/ Atripla+Isentress+Ziagen

I am Swiss who lived in Chile where i was diagnosed and put on Atripla, Ziagen (300 mg) in 2007 and Isentress added in july, 2009 ..... always undetectable except for a one time blip of 350 vl. cd4 counts steady at 250 since diagnosis. Now...

Response from Joseph McGowan, M.D., F.A.C.P.

North Shore University Hospital

Thanks for your question.It is not possible to say without further information whether the Ziagen or Isentress is necessary for you. If there was some drug resistance on the initial tests or if a previous treatment regimen had not worked, than... Read more »

Ziagen,Emtriva and Reyataz

Dear Dr. Frascino,Any thoughts on the combination Ziagen, Emtriva and Reyataz. I have been on Truvada, Norvir and Reyataz for the last 8 months and am having some diarrhea from it. I had the Ziagen blood test and it came back negative so should be...

Response from Robert J. Frascino, M.D.

The Robert James Frascino AIDS Foundation

Hello,Your problem is a common one! Gastrointestinal problems are a frequent complaint among those of us on antiretrovirals, particularly Norvir! Over time, we have become better at managing this annoying side effect by using medications to control... Read more »

UNDETECTABLE, BUT HOW ABOUT TRUVADA WITH ZIAGEN?

If one has undetectable viral load and 400 T cell on Kaletra, Ziagen, and Zerit (improvement from preevious 40,000 VL and 126 T cell); but increasing lipodystrophy from Zerit, should he substitute Truvada for Zerit? Never on Viread, but was on...

Response from Renslow Sherer, M.D.

University of Chicago Hospitals

Concerns for the combination of Ziagen (abacavir or ABC) and Viread (tenofovir or TDF), which is one of the two drugs in the combination Truvada (TDF and FTC), arose when the 3-drug NRTI combination of TDF + ABC + 3TC were shown to have extremely... Read more »

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ziagen

Posted by Anonymous, 4 Replies

My doc just started me on Abacavir, to replace the Preveon I was taking, in combination
with AZT and Viramune. I don't know much about Abacavir, except what I have found
on Project Inform's site. I would like to hear... Read more »

ziagen

Posted by Anonymous, 2 Replies

I know this is the wrong forum, but the treatment forum isen't that active. I was told that they have developed a test for sensitivity to ziagen(for rechallenge purposes)and I can't find anything...Has anyone heard of this??

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new drug...ziagen

Posted by Anonymous, 1 Reply

Just watched the news and the FDA has just approved a new drug
(Ziagen). They say the Ziagen is one pill taken twice a day and is
usually taken with AZT. What a tremendous relief... Read more »

swithching Ziagen to Viread...fatigue

Posted by Anonymous, 2 Replies

Im 5 yrs in Ive been taking epivir,ziagen and viramune.
Fatigue bacame an increasingly intolerable issue when I be gan Ziagen.(sorry, at yr. 3 I replaced d4tZerit with Ziagen.My legs were melting away)
Anyway going to try replacing the Ziagen with... Read more »

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