What is YUPELRI®?
- YUPELRI is a prescription medicine used to treat chronic obstructive
pulmonary disease (COPD), a long-term (chronic) lung disease that includes
chronic bronchitis, emphysema, or both.
- It is an anticholinergic medicine which helps the muscles around the airway in
your lungs stay relaxed to prevent symptoms such as wheezing, cough, chest
tightness, and shortness of breath.
- It is used long-term as 1 vial of YUPELRI, 1 time each day inhaled through
your nebulizer to improve symptoms of COPD for better breathing.
Who should not use YUPELRI?
- Do not use YUPELRI if you have sudden breathing problems. Always have a
rescue inhaler with you.
- Do not use YUPELRI if you have had an allergic reaction to revefenacin, or
any of the other ingredients in YUPELRI (sodium chloride, citric acid, sodium
citrate).
- Do not use in children. It is not known if YUPELRI is safe and effective in
children.
Before using YUPELRI, tell your healthcare provider about all your medical
conditions, including if you:
- have eye problems such as glaucoma. YUPELRI may make your glaucoma
worse.
- have prostate or bladder problems, or problems passing urine. YUPELRI may
make these problems worse.
- have liver problems.
- are allergic to any of the ingredients in YUPELRI, or any other medicines.
- are pregnant or planning to become pregnant. It is not known if YUPELRI
may harm your unborn baby.
- are breastfeeding. It is not known if the medicine in YUPELRI passes into
your breast milk and if it can harm your baby.
Tell your healthcare provider about all the medicines you take including
prescription and
over-the-counter medicines, vitamins, and herbal supplements.
YUPELRI and certain other medicines may interact with each other. This may cause
serious side effects.
Especially tell your healthcare provider if you take:
- Other anticholinergics (including tiotropium, ipratropium, aclidinium,
umeclidinium, glycopyrrolate)
- Atropine
Know the medicines you take. Keep a list of them to show your healthcare provider
and pharmacist each time you get a new medicine.
What are the possible side effects with YUPELRI?
YUPELRI can cause serious side effects, including:
- Sudden breathing problems immediately after inhaling your medicine. If
you have sudden breathing problems immediately after inhaling your
medicine, stop using YUPELRI and call your healthcare provider right away.
- New or worsened eye problems including acute narrow-angle glaucoma.
Acute narrow-angle glaucoma can cause permanent loss of vision if not
treated. Symptoms may include:
- Red eyes
- Blurred vision
- Seeing halos or bright colors around lights
- Eye pain or discomfort
- Nausea or vomiting
- Urinary retention. People who take YUPELRI may develop new or worse
urinary retention. Symptoms of urinary retention may include:
- difficulty urinating
- urinating frequently
- urination in a weak stream or drips
- painful urination
If you have any of these symptoms, call your healthcare provider right away before
taking another dose.
- Serious allergic reactions. Call your healthcare provider or get emergency
medical care if you get any of the following symptoms of a serious allergic
reaction:
- rash
- hives
- severe itching
- swelling of your face, mouth, and tongue
- difficulty breathing or swallowing
If you have any of these symptoms, stop taking YUPELRI, and call your healthcare
provider right away before taking another dose.
Common side effects of YUPELRI include:
- Cough
- Runny nose
- Upper respiratory tract infection
- Headache
- Back pain
Tell your healthcare provider if you get any side effects that bother you or that do not
go away. These are not all the possible side effects with YUPELRI. Ask your
healthcare provider or pharmacist for more information. Call your doctor for medical
advice about side effects. You may report side effects to FDA at 1-800-FDA-1088.
How should I use YUPELRI?
Read the step by step instructions for using YUPELRI at the end of this Patient
Information Leaflet
- YUPELRI is only for use with a nebulizer.
- Do not use YUPELRI more often than prescribed.
- Do not mix YUPELRI with other medicines in your nebulizer.
- Do not use other medicines that contain an anticholinergic for any
reason.
- Do not stop using YUPELRI, even if you are feeling better, unless your
healthcare provider tells you to because your symptoms might get worse.
- Call your healthcare provider or get emergency medical care right away if
- your breathing problems get worse.
- you need to use your rescue inhaler medicine more often than usual.
- your rescue inhaler medicine does not relieve your symptoms.
This summary does not include all the information about YUPELRI and is not
meant to take the place of a discussion with your healthcare provider about
your treatment.
Please see the full Prescribing Information.
For additional information please contact us at 1-800-395-3376.
You are encouraged to report negative side effects of prescription drugs to the
FDA. Visit www.fda.gov/medwatch or call 1-800-FDA-1088.
