Pitavastatininteractions
pitavastatin calcium 1 MG Oral Tablet
This is the interactions section of this product’s FDA label — what the manufacturer documented for this drug. It is not a check of your medication list, and a drug missing from it has not been cleared: licensed clinical databases list far more interactions than any single label does. Before combining medicines, ask a pharmacist, who can check everything you take at once and will do it for free.
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Drug interactions
Table 2 includes a list of drugs that increase the risk of myopathy and rhabdomyolysis when administered concomitantly with pitavastatin tablets and instructions for preventing or managing drug interactions. Table 2. Drug Interactions that Increase the Risk of Myopathy and Rhabdomyolysis with pitavastatin tablets Cyclosporine Clinical Impact: Cyclosporine significantly increases pitavastatin exposure and increases the risk of myopathy and rhabdomyolysis.
Intervention: Concomitant use of cyclosporine with pitavastatin tablets is contraindicated.
Gemfibrozil Clinical Impact: Gemfibrozil may cause myopathy when given alone. The risk of myopathy and rhabdomyolysis is increased with concomitant use of gemfibrozil with statins, including pitavastatin tablets.
Intervention: Avoid concomitant use of gemfibrozil with pitavastatin tablets.
Erythromycin Clinical Impact: Erythromycin significantly increases pitavastatin exposure and increases the risk of myopathy and rhabdomyolysis.
Intervention: In patients taking erythromycin, do not exceed pitavastatin tablets 1 mg once daily.
Rifampin Clinical Impact: Rifampin significantly increases peak pitavastatin exposure and increases the risk of myopathy and rhabdomyolysis.
Intervention: In patients taking rifampin, do not exceed pitavastatin tablets 2 mg once daily.
Fibrates Clinical Impact: Fibrates may cause myopathy when given alone. The risk of myopathy and rhabdomyolysis is increased with concomitant use of fibrates with statins, including pitavastatin tablets.
Intervention: Consider if the benefit of using fibrates concomitantly with pitavastatin tablets outweighs the increased risk of myopathy and rhabdomyolysis.
Niacin Clinical Impact: The risk of myopathy and rhabdomyolysis may be increased with concomitant use of lipid-modifying doses (≥1 g/day) of niacin with pitavastatin tablets.
Intervention: Consider if the benefit of using lipid-modifying doses (≥1 g/day) of niacin concomitantly with pitavastatin tablets outweighs the increased risk of myopathy and rhabdomyolysis.
Colchicine Clinical Impact: Cases of myopathy and rhabdomyolysis have been reported with concomitant use of colchicine with statins, including pitavastatin tablets.
Intervention: Consider the risk/benefit of concomitant use of colchicine with pitavastatin tablets. See full prescribing information for details regarding concomitant use of pitavastatin tablets with other drugs that increase the risk of myopathy and rhabdomyolysis.
Text above is quoted in full from the FDA-approved drug label published by openFDA, effective January 16, 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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