Drug details

Novarel (chorionic gonadotropin for injection)

type of Ovulation Stimulators, Gonadotropins

Novarel (chorionic gonadotropin for injection) is a polypeptide hormone used to treat Prepubertal cryptorchidism not due to anatomic obstruction. In general, HCG is thought to induce testicular descent in situations when descent would have occurred at puberty. HCG thus may help to predict whether or not orchiopexy will be needed in the future. Although, in some cases, descent following HCG administration is permanent, in most cases the response is temporary. Therapy is usually instituted between the ages of 4 and 9. Novareli is also used to treats elected cases of hypogonadotropic hypogonadism (hypogonadism secondary to a pituitary deficiency) in males, and for induction of ovulation and pregnancy in the anovulatory, infertile woman in whom the cause of anovulation is secondary and not due to primary ovarian failure, and who has been appropriately pretreated with human menotropins.

This drug may have the following side effects:

• headache,
• fatigue,
• restlessness,
• depression,
• irritability,
• fluid retention (edema),
• precocious puberty,
• breast development in males (gynecomastia),
• pain at the injection site, and
• hypersensitivity reactions including redness, hives, rash, skin swelling, and shortness of breath

The following drugs are related to Novarel, either as a replacement or used together:

• Tlando (testosterone undecanoate capsules)