Warnings for Ryzumvi
Included as part of the PRECAUTIONS section.
Precautions for Ryzumvi
Uveitis
Ryzumvi is not recommended when active ocular inflammation (e.g. iritis) is present because adhesions (synechiae) may form between the iris and the lens.
Potential For Eye Injury Or Contamination
To avoid the potential for eye injury or contamination, care should be taken to avoid touching the vial tip to the eye or to any other surface.
Use With Contact Lenses
Contact lens wearers should be advised to remove their lenses prior to the instillation of Ryzumvi and wait 10 minutes after dosing before reinserting their contact lenses.
Nonclinical Toxicology
Carcinogenesis, Mutagenesis, Impairment Of Fertility
Carcinogenesis
Carcinogenicity studies with Ryzumvi have not been conducted.
Mutagenesis
Phentolamine was not mutagenic in the in-vitro bacterial reverse mutation (Ames) assay. In the in-vitro chromosomal aberration study in Chinese hamster ovary cells, numerical aberrations were slightly increased after a 4-hour exposure to phentolamine without metabolic activation, and structural aberrations were slightly increased after a 4-hour exposure to phentolamine with metabolic activation only at the highest concentrations tested, but neither numerical nor structural aberrations were increased after a 20-hour exposure without metabolic activation. Phentolamine was not clastogenic in two in-vivo mouse micronucleus assays.
Impairment Of Fertility
The effect of phentolamine on female fertility has not been studied. Male rats treated with oral phentolamine for nine weeks (four weeks prior to mating, 3 weeks during the mating period and 2 weeks after mating) were mated with untreated females. At doses up to 648-times human therapeutic exposure levels at the Cmax, no adverse effects on male fertility parameters or on reproductive parameters in the untreated females mated with the treated males were observed.
Use In Specific Populations
Pregnancy
Risk Summary
There are no available data with Ryzumvi administration in pregnant women to inform a drug-associated risk. In animal toxicology studies, when phentolamine was administered orally to pregnant mice and rats during the period of organogenesis skeletal immaturity and decreased growth was observed in the offspring at doses at least 24-times the recommended clinical dose. Additionally, a lower rate of implantation was seen in pregnant rats treated with phentolamine administered at least 60-times the recommended clinical dose. No malformations or embryofetal deaths were observed in the offspring of pregnant mice, rats, and rabbits administered phentolamine during the period of organogenesis at doses of at least 24-, 60-, and 20-times, respectively, the recommended clinical dose (see Data). Ryzumvi should only be used during pregnancy if the potential benefit justifies the potential risk to the fetus.
Data
Animal Data
Oral administration of phentolamine to pregnant rats and mice at doses at least 24-times the recommended clinical dose (based on a body weight per surface area (mg/m²) comparison with a 60-kg human) resulted in slightly decreased growth and slight skeletal immaturity of the fetuses. Immaturity was manifested by increased incidence of incomplete or unossified calcanei and phalangeal nuclei of the hind limb and of incompletely ossified sternebrae. At oral phentolamine doses at least 60-times the recommended clinical dose (based on a mg/m² comparison with a 60-kg human), a slightly lower rate of implantation was found in rats. Phentolamine did not affect embryonic or fetal development in rabbits at oral doses at least 20-times the recommended dose (based on a mg/m² comparison with a 60-kg human). No malformations or embryofetal deaths were observed in the rat, mouse or rabbit studies.
Lactation
Risk Summary
There is no information regarding the presence of phentolamine in human milk, the effects on the breastfed infants, or the effects on milk production during lactation to inform risk of phentolamine ophthalmic solution 0.75% to an infant. The developmental and health benefits of breastfeeding should be considered along with the mother’s clinical need for Ryzumvi and any potential adverse effects on the breastfed child from Ryzumvi.
Pediatric Use
The safety and effectiveness of Ryzumvi have been established in pediatric patients aged 3 to 17 years. No overall differences have been observed between pediatric and adult subjects [see Clinical Studies].
Geriatric Use
No overall differences in safety and effectiveness have been observed between elderly and younger adult subjects.