What is isosorbide used for?
Isosorbide mononitrate is used to prevent angina (chest pain) caused by coronary artery disease (heart disease). It does not work fast enough to relieve the pain of an angina attack that has already started.
What is another name for isosorbide?
Isosorbide mononitrate is available under the following different brand names: Imdur, Monoket, and ISMO.
What are side effects of isosorbide mononitrate?
Side Effects
- Abnormal heart sound.
- absence of or decrease in body movement.
- arm, back, or jaw pain.
- black, tarry stools.
- bladder pain.
- bleeding after defecation.
- blood in the urine or stools.
- body aches or pain.
Is isosorbide mononitrate for blood pressure?
Isosorbide mononitrate (ISMN) is effective in the short-term for decreasing systolic blood pressure, pulse pressure, and pulse wave reflection in patients with systolic hypertension.
What color is isosorbide?
isosorbide mononitrate ER 60 mg tablet,extended release 24 hr. This medicine is a yellow, oval, scored, film-coated, tablet imprinted with “N 60”.
Does isosorbide increase heart rate?
Compared to the findings after the placebo, the blood pressure level fell and the heart rate increased after the ingestion of isosorbide dinitrate. The changes were more striking with the patients standing than with them supine, and the larger dose of the drug produced greater changes than the smaller dose.
Is clopidogrel a blood thinner?
Clopidogrel is an antiplatelet blood-thinning medicine that may help prevent future heart attacks, strokes, and other clot-related diseases in patients who have already had a heart attack, stroke, or have certain cardiovascular conditions.
Can I take isosorbide at night?
You should take this medicine first thing in the morning and follow the same schedule each day. This medicine works best if you have a “drug-free” period of time every day when you do not take it.
Does clopidogrel affect the kidneys?
Conclusions. In summary, among patients hospitalized with ACS and treated with clopidogrel, lower levels of kidney function were associated with a greater risk of death, hospitalization for AMI, and major bleeding.
What is the difference between aspirin and clopidogrel?
Aspirin and Plavix (clopidogrel bisulfate) are drugs used to prevent blood clots. Aspirin and Plavix belong to different drug classes. Plavix is an anticoagulant and aspirin is a nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drug (NSAID). Aspirin also is used to reduce fever, and to treat pain and inflammation in the body.