The ORIJIN® Patient Support Program is here for your patients taking PrVELPHORO®
What the ORIJIN Program has to offer:
Counselling services from an ORIJIN nurse on:
How to take
VELPHORO
What to expect during treatment
Information related to treating hyperphosphatemia
Keeping a low-phosphorus diet
Access to reimbursement specialists to help with:
Financial assistance
Reimbursement navigation
ORIJIN nurses are trained and supported by a Canadian dietician following the most up-to-date nutritional recommendations.
ORIJIN nurses are trained and supported by a Canadian dietician following the most up-to-date nutritional recommendations.
Helping you register your patients with ORIJIN
- You can help your patients register by:
- Simply filling out an enrolment form with their signature and faxing it to 1-844-354-6272.
- Once registered, an ORIJIN nurse will contact your patient.
- Your patients can also register for the ORIJIN Program by calling:
Important Safety Information
- Clinical use:
- Efficacy and safety in pediatric population (<18 years of age) have not been evaluated.
- No overall differences in safety or efficacy were observed between subjects ≥65 and younger subjects.
- Contraindications:
- Patients who are hypersensitive to this drug or to any ingredient in the formulation, including any non-medicinal ingredient, or component of the container.
- Patients with hemochromatosis or any other iron accumulation disorders.
- Relevant warnings and precautions:
- Diabetes, hereditary fructose intolerance, glucose-galactose malabsorption, and sucrase-isomaltase insufficiency
- Caution in patients with gastrointestinal issues
- VELPHORO may cause black stools which may mask gastrointestinal bleeding
- Patients with hepatic/biliary/pancreatic disorders/disease
- Monitoring and laboratory tests regarding serum phosphorus and iron
- Pregnant or nursing women
- Less common clinical trial or post-market adverse reactions:
- In the 6-week and 55-week clinical studies, tooth discolouration and product taste were some of the less common (<1%), treatment-related treatment emergent adverse events reported in more than one patient.
- Eosinophilic peritonitis has been listed in post-market spontaneous reports.
- For more information:
- Please consult the Product Monograph at http://velphoromonograph.ca for important information relating to adverse reactions, drug interactions, and dosing information which have not been discussed in this piece. The Product Monograph is also available by calling us at 1-877-341-9245.