WARNING
THIORIDAZINE HAS BEEN SHOWN TO PROLONG THE QTc INTERVAL IN A DOSE RELATED MANNER, AND DRUGS WITH THIS POTENTIAL, INCLUDING THIORIDAZINE, HAVE BEEN ASSOCIATED WITH TORSADE DE POINTES-TYPE ARRHYTHMIAS AND SUDDEN DEATH. DUE TO ITS POTENTIAL FOR SIGNIFICANT, POSSIBLY LIFE-THREATENING, PROARRHYTHMIC EFFECTS, THIORIDAZINE SHOULD BE RESERVED FOR USE IN THE TREATMENT OF SCHIZOPHRENIC PATIENTS WHO FAIL TO SHOW AN ACCEPTABLE RESPONSE TO ADEQUATE COURSES OF TREATMENT WITH OTHER ANTIPSYCHOTIC DRUGS, EITHER BECAUSE OF INSUFFICIENT EFFECTIVENESS OR THE INABILITY TO ACHIEVE AN EFFECTIVE DOSE DUE TO INTOLERABLE ADVERSE EFFECTS FROM THOSE DRUGS. (SEE WARNINGS, CONTRAINDICATIONS, AND INDICATIONS).
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THIORIDAZINE SUMMARY
THIORIDAZINE HYDROCHLORIDE TABLETS, USP
Thioridazine hydrochloride is 2-methylmercapto-10-[2-(N-methyl-2-piperidyl) ethyl] phenothiazine.
Thioridazine is indicated for the management of schizophrenic patients who fail to respond adequately to treatment with other antipsychotic drugs. Due to the risk of significant, potentially life-threatening, proarrhythmic effects with thioridazine treatment, thioridazine should be used only in patients who have failed to respond adequately to treatment with appropriate courses of other antipsychotic drugs, either because of insufficient effectiveness or the inability to achieve an effective dose due to intolerable adverse effects from those drugs. Consequently, before initiating treatment with thioridazine, it is strongly recommended that a patient be given at least 2 trials, each with a different antipsychotic drug product, at an adequate dose, and for an adequate duration (see WARNINGS and CONTRAINDICATIONS).
However, the prescriber should be aware that thioridazine has not been systematically evaluated in controlled trials in treatment refractory schizophrenic patients and its efficacy in such patients is unknown.
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NEWS HIGHLIGHTSMedia Articles Related to Thioridazine
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Source: Immune System / Vaccines News From Medical News Today [2009.11.19]
Researchers at the Swedish medical university Karolinska Institutet have discovered that patients with recent-onset schizophrenia have higher levels of inflammatory substances in their brains. Their findings offer hope of being able to treat schizophrenia with drugs that affect the immune system. The causes of schizophrenia are largely unknown, and this hinders the development of effective treatments.
Major Schizophrenia Study Finds Striking Similarities Across 37 Countries In Six Regions
Source: Mental Health News From Medical News Today [2009.11.16]
An international study of more than 17,000 people with schizophrenia has found striking similarities in symptoms, medication, employment and sexual problems, despite the fact that it covered a diverse range of patients and healthcare systems in 37 different countries.
World's Leading Experts In Schizophrenia To Meet At 26th Annual Pittsburgh Schizophrenia Conference Nov. 13
Source: Schizophrenia News From Medical News Today [2009.11.08]
Internationally renowned experts in schizophrenia and other psychotic disorders, researchers and clinicians, patients and their families and friends will gather in Pittsburgh to discuss the latest in research and clinical advances at the 26th Annual Pittsburgh Schizophrenia Conference to be held Friday, Nov. 13, at the Sheraton Station Square, Pittsburgh.
Schizophrenia
Source: MedicineNet Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism Specialty [2009.10.30]
Title: Schizophrenia
Category: Diseases and Conditions
Created: 12/31/1997
Last Editorial Review: 10/30/2009
Forest Laboratories, Inc. And Gedeon Richter Announce Positive Results From A Phase IIb Study Of Cariprazine For The Treatment Of Schizophrenia
Source: Schizophrenia News From Medical News Today [2009.10.29]
Forest Laboratories, Inc. (NYSE: FRX) and Gedeon Richter Plc announced positive top-line results from a Phase IIb clinical trial of the novel, investigational antipsychotic agent cariprazine for the treatment of acute exacerbation of schizophrenia.
Published Studies Related to Thioridazine
Comparison of the effects of thioridazine and mesoridazine on the QT interval in healthy adults after single oral doses. [2007.11]
We compared the effects of single doses of thioridazine and mesoridazine on the heart rate-corrected QT (QTc) interval in healthy adult volunteers. QTc intervals and plasma concentrations of thioridazine, mesoridazine, and metabolites were measured after single oral doses of thioridazine hydrochloride 50 mg, mesoridazine besylate 50 mg, or placebo in a double-blind, crossover study...
Repeated dosing with donepezil does not affect the safety, tolerability or pharmacokinetics of single-dose thioridazine in young volunteers. [2004.11]
AIM: To investigate the effects of donepezil at steady state on the safety, tolerability and pharmacokinetics of a single dose of thioridazine, in healthy subjects... CONCLUSIONS: Repeated dosing with donepezil, 5 mg daily for 2 weeks, had no significant effect on the safety, tolerability or pharmacokinetics of thioridazine. Thioridazine was poorly tolerated.
Effect of fluoxetine and imipramine on the pharmacokinetics and tolerability of the antipsychotic quetiapine. [2002.04]
The effects of fluoxetine and imipramine on the pharmacokinetics and nonpsychiatric side effect profile of quetiapine fumarate were investigated in 26 patients with schizophrenia, schizoaffective disorder, or bipolar disorder in a multicenter, two-period, multiple-dose, open-label, randomized trial.
Psychomotor effects of zaleplon and thioridazine coadministration. [2000.06]
OBJECTIVE: To assess the potential pharmacokinetic and pharmacodynamic interaction of zaleplon and thioridazine administered concomitantly in healthy volunteers... CONCLUSION: The results of single-dose administration showed an additive pharmacodynamic interaction between zaleplon and thioridazine at 1 h in one of four tests and supra-additivity for 4 h in another test. This interaction is relatively short in duration due to the short half-life of zaleplon.
Withdrawal of haloperidol, thioridazine, and lorazepam in the nursing home: a controlled, double-blind study. [1999.08.09]
BACKGROUND: Ongoing regimens of haloperidol, thioridazine, and lorazepam are commonly administered to manage behavior problems in nursing home residents. Nevertheless, there is controversy over whether periodic drug withdrawal should be attempted when those medications are prescribed. This study addressed that issue by examining the effects of discontinuing treatment with haloperidol, thioridazine, and lorazepam among residents of a large suburban nursing home... CONCLUSIONS: Results of this work suggest that longterm use of haloperidol, thioridazine, and lorazepam in nursing homes to manage agitation should be closely monitored for their efficacy. Furthermore, routine attempts at drug withdrawal should be considered for most residents taking psychotropic medication.
Clinical Trials Related to Thioridazine
Study With IT-Aided Preventive Program in Schizophrenia [Not yet recruiting]
Information Technology-aided Program of Relapse Prevention in Schizophrenia (ITAREPS) will
decrease the number of hospitalizations in patients with schizophrenia or schizoaffective
disorder who are treated in the outpatient psychiatric setting, as evidenced by the reduction
of the total number of hospitalizations due to relapse of psychosis at the end of the
12-months follow-up period in the active ITAREPS group compared to the control
(treatment-as-usual) group.
Changes in Heart Rhythms Associated With Antipsychotic Drug Treatment [Recruiting]
This study is being done to look at the electrical activity of the heart. This study will
help decide whether taking recordings for a 24-hour period gives more useful information
than recording it for a few seconds in a doctor's office. The study will compare 24 hour ECG
results of patients taking thioridazine (Mellaril) to those of other patients taking
different medications that took part in another study.
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