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cerivastatin

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cerivastatin,
an HMG-CoA reductase inhibitor (Baycol) withdrawn from the market in August 2001 after several cases of fatal rhabdomyolysis.

cerivastatin [sĕ-riv´ah-stat″in]
an inhibitor of an enzyme involved in the biosynthesis of cholesterol; used as an adjunct in the treatment of hyperlipidemia. Withdrawn in the United States because it is associated with an increased risk for rhabdomyolysis.

cerivastatin
Baycol® Cardiology Cholesterol-lowering, HMG-CoA reductase inhibitor/statin for managing hypercholesterolemia and mixed dyslipidemia; it ↑ HDL-C and ↓ LDL-C; withdrawn from the market as it was linked to rhabdomyolysis. See Statin.


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34) The route from acetoacetyl-CoA to 7-dehydrocholesterol (Figure 1) (7) is the very route inhibited by HMG-CoA reductase inhibitors, namely the statin drugs atorvastatin, cerivastatin (withdrawn 8/01), fluvastatin, lovastatin, pravastatin, simvastatin, pitavastatin, and rosuvastatin, which were introduced to lower total cholesterol (TC) levels, and especially LDL-cholesterol (LDL-C) levels, ostensibly to prevent CVD.
14) Examples of international drug withdrawals have included fulminant liver failure with troglitazone, QT prolongation and ventricular arrhythmias with cisapride, haemolytic anaemia, coagulopathy and renal or hepatic dysfunction with temafloxacin, and fatal rhabdomyolysis with cerivastatin.
 
 
 
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