Pacerone and Parlodel

• Generic Name: amiodarone
• Dosage Forms: tablet
• Other Brand Names: Pacerone, Cordarone, Nexterone

Pacerone affects the rhythm of your heartbeats.

Pacerone is used to help keep the heart beating normally in people with life-threatening heart rhythm disorders of the ventricles (the lower chambers of the heart that allow blood to flow out of the heart). This medicine is used to treat ventricular tachycardia or ventricular fibrillation.

Pacerone is for use only in treating life-threatening heart rhythm disorders.

Pacerone may also be used for purposes not listed in this medication guide.

• Generic Name: bromocriptine
• Dosage Forms: tablets, capsules
• Other Brand Names: Parlodel, Cycloset

This medication guide provides information about the Parlodel brand of bromocriptine. Cycloset is another brand of bromocriptine that is not covered in this medication guide.

The Parlodel brand of bromocriptine is used to treat certain conditions caused by a hormone imbalance in which there is too much prolactin in the blood (hyperprolactinemia). Symptoms include lack of sexual development in adolescents. Women may have missed menstrual periods, loss of interest in sex, hot flashes, infertility, or unexpected breast milk production and leakage from the nipples. Men may have enlarged breasts, decreased libido, decreased facial or body hair, and loss of muscle. Parlodel is also used to treat these disorders when they are caused by brain tumors that can produce prolactin.

Parlodel is sometimes used together with surgery or radiation in treating acromegaly, a condition caused by a pituitary gland tumor that produces too much growth hormone. Parlodel is also used to treat symptoms of Parkinson's disease, such as stiffness, tremors, muscle spasms, and poor muscle control.

Parlodel may also be used for purposes not listed in this medication guide.