Clopidogrel/Etravirine
This information is generalized and not intended as specific medical advice. Consult your healthcare professional before taking or discontinuing any drug or commencing any course of treatment.
Medical warning:
Serious. These medicines may interact and cause very harmful effects. Contact your healthcare professional (e.g. doctor or pharmacist) for more information.
How the interaction occurs:
Your etravirine may slow down how quickly your liver process clopidogrel to its active form.
What might happen:
Your clopidogrel may not work as well or at all.
What you should do about this interaction:
Make sure your healthcare professionals (e.g. doctor or pharmacist) know that you are taking these medicines together. Your doctor may want to change your medicine.Your healthcare professionals may already be aware of this interaction and may be monitoring you for it. Do not start, stop, or change the dosage of any medicine before checking with them first.
References:
1.Plavix (clopidogrel bisulfate) US prescribing information. Bristol-Myers Squibb/Sanofi Pharmaceuticals Partnership December, 2011.
2.Intelence (etravirine) US prescribing information. Tibotec, Inc. February, 2013.
3.Farid NA, Payne CD, Small DS, Winters KJ, Ernest CS 2nd, Brandt JT, Darstein C, Jakubowski JA, Salazar DE. Cytochrome P450 3A inhibition by ketoconazole affects prasugrel and clopidogrel pharmacokinetics and pharmacodynamics differently. Clin Pharmacol Ther 2007 May;81(5):735-41.
