Active Ingredient: Octreotide
For this indication, competent medicine agencies globally authorize below treatments:
Intravenous
600 - 1,200 ug
From 600 To 1,200 ug once every day for 5 day(s)
25 micrograms/hour for 5 days by continuous intravenous (i.v.) infusion. Octreotide can be used in dilution with physiological saline.
In cirrhotic patients with bleeding gastro-oesophageal varices, octreotide has been well tolerated at continuous i.v. doses of up to 50 micrograms/hour for 5 days.
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