Aggrastat - labeled renal guidance
Renal action and limits
Tirofiban (Aggrastat), adult IV treatment of non-ST-elevation acute coronary syndrome
Cockcroft-Gault CrCl using actual body weight, mL/min
- Action or finding
- At CrCl <=60 mL/min, give 25 mcg/kg IV within 5 minutes, then 0.075 mcg/kg/min for up to 18 hours.
- Limits and monitoring
- Calculate Cockcroft-Gault with actual body weight. The renal reduction affects the infusion; confirm concentration and monitor bleeding and platelets.
- Before use
- Apply only to the stated formulation, indication and renal population.
- Product / population
- Tirofiban (Aggrastat), adult IV treatment of non-ST-elevation acute coronary syndrome
- Renal measure
- Cockcroft-Gault CrCl using actual body weight, mL/min
- Source revision
- DailyMed SPL version 3, effective 2025-01-01; posted Dec 26, 2024
- Retrieved
- 2026-11-07 (not the revision date)
Renal guidance: 2.3 and 8.6
At CrCl <=60 mL/min, give 25 mcg/kg IV within 5 minutes, then 0.075 mcg/kg/min for up to 18 hours. Calculate Cockcroft-Gault with actual body weight. The renal reduction affects the infusion; confirm concentration and monitor bleeding and platelets.
Source: https://dailymed.nlm.nih.gov/dailymed/drugInfo.cfm?setid=e850111f-e713-41a2-9c65-21c517cf5511
