The purpose of this research was to develop mouth dissolve tablets of cinnarizine by effervescent, superdisintegrant addition and sublimation methods. All the three formulations were evaluated for disintegration time, hardness and friability, among these superdisintegrant addition method showed lowest disintegration time; hence it was selected for further studies. Further nine batches (B1-B9) w...

Comment Both these patients were positive for HIV antibody and had a clinical and radiological presentation suggestive of P carinni pneumonia that responded to treatment; thus the criteria fbr a diagnosis of AIDS were satisfied. ' In case 2 the diagnosis was complicated by the previous amiodarone treatment, though pneumonitis induced by amiodarone is unusual at a daily dosage less than 400 mg.2...

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Drug-induced Parkinsonism (DIP) is the second most common cause of parkinsonism (PK). Flunarizine and cinnarizine induced parkinsonism (FCIP) is one of the most frequent forms and is commonly found in elderly female patients manifesting symmetrical motor symptoms with resting and/or postural tremor, often associated with depression, and occasionally acathisia and dyskinesia . FCIP was first des...

Thirty-seven patients suffering from vertigo associated with vertebrobasilar insufficiency participated in our prospective, single-center, double-blind, comparative study. Patients were randomly allocated to treatment with placebo; betahistine (12 mg betahistine dimesylate, one tablet three times daily); or the fixed combination of 20 mg cinnarizine and 40 mg dimenhydrinate (one tablet three ti...