Top 200 Drugs Podcast – Medications 171-175

Real Life Pharmacology - Pharmacology Education for Health Care Professionals

Eric Christianson, PharmD; Pharmacology Expert and Clinical Pharmacist

Education, Health & Fitness, Medicine

5 • 716 Ratings

🗓️ 30 January 2025

⏱️ 24 minutes

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On this episode of the Top 200 drugs podcast, we are going to cover these 5 medications: Cyclosporine, insulin glargine, tadalafil, amitriptyline, and gemfibrozil.

Cyclosporine is a calcineurin inhibitor that suppresses the immune system. This is useful in patients who have had an organ transplant.

Insulin glargine is a long-acting insulin product that can be used in type 1 and type 2 diabetes. I discuss adverse effects, dosing, and much more.

Tadalafil is a PDE-5 inhibitor that can be used to treat sexual dysfunction. The nitrate drug interaction is one of the most highly tested drug interactions in school.

Amitriptyline is a TCA. It is highly anticholinergic and because of this is not a great medication to utilize in elderly patients.

Gemfibrozil is primarily used to lower triglyceride levels. This medication can significantly increase the risk for rhabdomyolysis in patients taking statin medications.

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0:50.6	Hey, all, welcome back to the real life pharmacology podcast. I'm your host pharmacist,
0:55.1	Eric Christensen. Thank you for listening today. We're going to keep on with the top 200 drugs.
1:01.6	We've got 171 through 175. First medication is sandimmune. That is a brand name medication. Cyclosporin is actually the generic name. It's
1:14.8	probably the one I hear more often. This is an immunosuppressive type agent. It is classified as a
1:21.8	chalcinurin inhibitor. So basically, calcium urine inhibitors, to ch Krolamis being the other medication, these essentially work to suppress the immune system, and they do that by inhibiting the action of Kelsenurin, which is a protein phosphatase involved in activating T cells.
1:45.3	Remember T cells play an important role in the immune system
1:48.4	and, you know, basically attacking viruses and bacteria
1:53.0	and different foreign objects, basically, to the body.
1:58.7	So they play critical role in those immune responses.
2:02.9	So ultimately, what you could imagine this medication is used for is immunosuppressive purposes.
2:12.1	So the primary use is going to be in patients who have transplants.
2:17.4	So any type of kind of organ transplant, often sometimes, is going to be in patients who have transplants.
2:20.4	So any type of kind of organ transplant,
2:25.3	often cyclosporin will be a part of their medication regimen,
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