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tolcapone (Tasmar®)

 

Status: Medicine does not meet criteria for AWMSG assessment

Excluded from appraisal by AWMSG as meets exclusion criteria 1. See AWMSG criteria for appraising a medicine (PDF, 430Kb) for information.

Medicine details

Medicine name tolcapone (Tasmar®)
Formulation 100 mg film-coated tablet
Reference number 312
Indication

In combination with levodopa/benserazide or levodopa/carbidopa for use in patients with levodopa-responsive idiopathic Parkinson's disease and motor fluctuations, who failed to respond to or are intolerant of other Catechol-O-methyltransferase (COMT) inhibitors

Company Meda Pharmaceuticals Ltd
BNF chapter Central nervous system
Submission type N/A
Status Medicine does not meet criteria for AWMSG assessment
Date of issue 15/03/2005
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