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IMPORTANT SAFETY INFORMATION: Venofer® (iron sucrose injection, USP) is contraindicated in patients with evidence of iron overload, in patients with known hypersensitivity to Venofer® or any of its inactive components, and in patients with anemia not caused by iron deficiency. Serious hypersensitivity reactions have been reported in patients receiving Venofer®. In clinical studies, several patients experienced hypersensitivity reactions presenting with wheezing, dyspnea, hypotension, rashes, or pruritus. The post-marketing spontaneous reporting system includes reports of patients who experienced serious or life-threatening reactions (anaphylactic shock, loss of consciousness or collapse, bronchospasm with dyspnea, or convulsion) associated with Venofer® administration.
Hypotension has been reported frequently in non-dialysis dependent-CKD patients receiving IV iron. Hypotension following administration of Venofer® may be related to rate of administration and total dose delivered.
In a multi-dose efficacy study in non-dialysis dependent-CKD patients (N=91), the most frequent adverse events (≥5%) whether or not related to Venofer® administration, were taste disturbance (7.7%), peripheral edema (7.7%), diarrhea (5.5%), constipation (5.5%), nausea (5.5%), dizziness (5.5%), and hypertension (5.5%). In an additional study of Venofer® with varying erythropoietin doses in 96 treated NDD-CKD patients, adverse events, whether or not related to Venofer® reported by ≥5% of Venofer® exposed patients are as follows: diarrhea (16.5%), edema (16.5%), nausea (13.2%), vomiting (12.1%), arthralgia (7.7%), back pain (7.7%), headache (7.7%), hypertension (7.7%), taste disturbance (7.7%), dizziness (6.6%), extremity pain (5.5%), and injection site burning (5.5%).
In multi-dose efficacy studies in HDD-CKD patients (N=231), the most frequent adverse events (> 5%) whether or not related to Venofer® administration, were hypotension (39.4%), muscle cramps (29.4%), nausea (14.7%), headache (12.6%), graft complications (9.5%), vomiting (9.1%), dizziness (6.5%) hypertension (6.5%), chest pain (6.1%), and diarrhea (5.2%). In post-marketing safety studies in HDD-CKD patients (N=1051), the most frequent adverse events reported (>1%), whether or not related to Venofer® administration, were congestive heart failure, sepsis, and taste disturbance. In the study of PDD-CKD patients (N=75), the most frequent adverse events, whether or not related to Venofer®, reported by ≥5% of these patients were diarrhea (8.0%), peritoneal infection (8.0%) vomiting (8.0%), hypertension (8.0%), pharyngitis (6.7%), peripheral edema (5.3%), and nausea (5.3%).
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