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Efeitos indesejáveis dos Leucotrienos ( Singulair, Montelukast)

 

Editor's Note: The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) first alerted healthcare professionals (HCPs) about a possible association between the use of leukotriene inhibitors and neuropsychiatric events in 2008 and added information to product labels in 2009. The reported events included agitation, aggression, anxiousness, dream abnormalities and hallucinations, depression, insomnia, irritability, restlessness, suicidal thinking and behavior (including suicide), and tremor. While the precaution was extended to all agents in this class (montelukast [Singulair®], zafirlukast [Accolate®], and zileuton [Zyflo®]), particular concern has been raised about montelukast due to its widespread use in both adult and pediatric patients for multiple indications. Montelukast is approved for the chronic treatment of asthma, acute prevention of exercise-induced bronchial constriction, and relief of both perennial and seasonal allergic rhinitis symptoms. Singulair is approved in adults and children 6 months of age and older. Continued concerns about suicidality and neuropsychiatric events with montelukast were again raised at a recent FDA Pediatric Advisory Committee (PAC) meeting in September 2014. Medscape spoke with Sally Seymour, MD, and Erika Torjusen, MD, MHS, both at the Center for Drug Evaluation and Research in the Division of Pulmonary, Allergy, and Rheumatology at the FDA, about the advisory committee meeting, concerns with these agents, and the implications for HCPs.

http://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/840302