Metoprololdosage

metoprolol tartrate 12.5 MG Oral Tablet

Dosage and administration

Myocardial Infarction: The recommended starting dosage is 50 mg orally every 6 hours. Maintenance dosage depends upon hemodynamic tolerance, see full prescribing information.

2.1 Myocardial

Infarction The recommended starting dose in hemodynamically stable patients is 50 mg orally every 6 hours. In case of intolerance, reduce the starting dose to 25 mg orally every 6 hours and administer for 48 hours. Titrate dosage based on tolerability and hemodynamic parameters (i.e., heart rate, blood pressure). LOPRESSOR should preferably be administered with or following meals. The maximum daily maintenance dosage is 100 mg orally twice daily.

Text above is quoted in full from the FDA-approved drug label published by openFDA, effective January 26, 2026. Matched to this product by RxNorm code. Cross-references to other sections of the full prescribing information have been removed, since they point to a document not shown here. Nothing else is changed: no sentence is shortened, reworded or summarised.

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