DEMENTIA: MEMANTINE

Question 1

WHAT DRUG CLASS IS MEMANTINE?

Answer 1

NMDA glutamate receptor antagonist

Question 2

MEMANTINE: SIDE EFFECTS

Answer 2

Headache/dizziness
Drowsiness
Constipation
Hypertension/ Hypersensitivity

Question 3

MEMANTINE: CAUTIONS

Answer 3

amantadine - caution or avoid
Epilepsy - since seizures are a rare side effect

Question 4

MEMANTINE: INTERACTIONS

Answer 4

ketamine - avoid
predicted to increase the effects of levodopa, ropinirole, pramiprexole, rotigotine

it is a dopaminergic drug so this makes sense - it is a antagonist at the NMDA receptors