Invega Sustenna Use In Pregnancy & Lactation

Pregnancy: The safety of intramuscularly-injected paliperidone palmitate or orally-dose paliperidone for use during human pregnancy has not been established.
A retrospective observational cohort study based on a US claims database compared the risk of congenital malformations for live births among women with and without antipsychotic use during the first trimester of pregnancy. Paliperidone, the active metabolite of risperidone, was not specifically evaluated in this study. The risk of congenital malformations with risperidone, after adjusting for confounder variables available in the database, was elevated compared to no antipsychotic exposure (relative risk=1.26, 95% CI: 1.02-1.56). No biological mechanism has been identified to explain these findings and teratogenic effects have not been observed in non clinical studies. Based on the findings of this single observational study, a causal relationship between in utero exposure to risperidone and congenital malformations has not been established.
Laboratory animals treated with a high dose of oral paliperidone showed a slight increase in fetal deaths. Pregnancy parameters were not affected in rats given the intramuscular injection of paliperidone palmitate. The high doses were toxic to the mothers. The offspring was not affected at oral exposures 20- to 22-fold the maximum human exposure, or intramuscular exposures 6-fold the maximum human exposure.
Neonates exposed to antipsychotic drugs (including paliperidone) during the third trimester of pregnancy are at risk for extrapyramidal and/or withdrawal symptoms that may vary in severity following delivery. These symptoms in the neonates may include agitation, hypertonia, hypotonia, tremor, somnolence, respiratory distress, or feeding disorder. These complications have varied in severity; while in some cases symptoms have been self-limited, in other cases neonates have required intensive care unit support and prolonged hospitalization.
INVEGA SUSTENNA should be used during pregnancy only if the potential benefits justifies the potential risk to the foetus. The effect of INVEGA SUSTENNA on labor and delivery in humans is unknown.
Breast-feeding: In animal studies with paliperidone and in human studies with risperidone, paliperidone was excreted in the milk. Therefore, women receiving INVEGA SUSTENNA should not breast-feed infants.