All the Active Ingredient Drugs
Phosphate Binder. Sucroferric Oxyhydroxide 500 mg. CHEW. TABS.: 90. Init. dose 1,500 mg iron (3 tabs.)/d, divided across the meals of the day., must be taken with meals.
Pts. receiving should adhere to their prescribed diets.
Titrat.& mainten.: Serum phosphorus levels must be monit. and the dose up or down titrated in increm. of 500 mg iron (1 tab.)/d every 2-4 wks. until an accept. serum phosphorus level is reached, with regular monitor. afterwards.
In clinical practice, tmt. will be based on the need to control serum phosphorus levels, though pts. who respond to drug therapy usually achieve optimal serum phosphorus levels at doses of 1,500 mg-2,000 mg iron/d (3 - 4 tablets). See Lit.
Indicated for the control of serum phosphorus levels in adult chron. kidney dis. (CKD) pts. on haemodialys. (HD) or periton. dialys. (PD). The drug should be used within the context of a multiple therapeut. approach, which could include calcium supplem., 1,25-dihydroxy vitamin D3 or one of its analog., or calcimimetics to control the develop. of renal bone dis.
C/I: Hypersens. Haemochromatosis and any other iron accumulat. disord.
