Dihydrocodeine: Safety concerns

Expert Review of Clinical Pharmacology

Volumn 9, Issue 1, 2016, Pages 9-12

  Leppert, Wojciech ^a   Woroń, Jarosław ^b  

^a POZNAN UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Poland)

^b JAGIELLONIAN UNIVERSITY MEDICAL COLLEGE   (Poland)

Author keywords

adverse effects; analgesia; dihydrocodeine; opioids; safety

Indexed keywords

CODEINE; CYTOCHROME P450 2D6; DIHYDROCODEINE; TRAMADOL; NARCOTIC ANALGESIC AGENT;

ALLERGIC REACTION; ANALGESIA; ANALGESIC ACTIVITY; ANGIONEUROTIC EDEMA; BLURRED VISION; CHRONIC PAIN; CLINICAL TRIAL (TOPIC); CONSTIPATION; COUGHING; DEHYDRATION; DRUG METABOLISM; DRUG POTENCY; DRUG SAFETY; DYSPNEA; ENZYME ACTIVITY; HALLUCINATION; HUMAN; HYPOTENSION; KIDNEY COLIC; LONG TERM CARE; NAUSEA AND VOMITING; PRESCRIPTION; PRIAPISM; PROPHYLAXIS; PROSTATE HYPERTROPHY; RASH; RESPIRATION DEPRESSION; RESPIRATORY FAILURE; REVIEW; RISK FACTOR; SOMNOLENCE; STOMACH PAIN; URINE RETENTION; URTICARIA; WITHDRAWAL SYNDROME; XEROSTOMIA; ANALOGS AND DERIVATIVES; DOSE RESPONSE; ORAL DRUG ADMINISTRATION; PAIN;

ADMINISTRATION, ORAL; ANALGESICS, OPIOID; CODEINE; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, DRUG; HUMANS; PAIN;

EID: 84949108429     PISSN: 17512433     EISSN: 17512441     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1586/17512433.2016.1092871     Document Type: Review

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