Pletal
Cilostazol tablets for intermittent claudication, the leg pain from blocked arteries. It widens blood vessels and helps blood flow during walking.
- Category
- Pain & Anti-inflammatories
- Active ingredient
- Cilostazol
- Route
- Oral use
- Form
- Tablet
- Strengths
- 50mg · 100mg
This listing uses Pletal as a reference name. A generic equivalent is supplied; its exact brand and manufacturer are confirmed before supply.
Prescription and consultation requirements for Pletal vary by destination and are determined by the fulfilment partner.
Pletal details
- Condition
- Intermittent Claudication
- Alternative names
- cilostazol
- Therapeutic class
- Phosphodiesterase-3 (PDE3) Inhibitor
- Pharmacological class
- Platelet Aggregation Inhibitor
- Contraindications
- congestive heart failure of any severity; active pathological bleeding
- Minor side effects
- headache; diarrhoea; nausea
- Moderate side effects
- palpitations; dizziness; rhinitis
- Serious side effects
- severe cardiac arrhythmia, requires immediate medical attention
- Dosage forms
- Tablet
- Administration route
- Oral use
- Supply category
- Prescription-only medicine (POM)
- Originator
- Otsuka Pharmaceutical
- Onset Time
- 2–4 weeks
- Duration
- 12 hours
- Storage instructions
- Store below 25°C.
- Drug interactions
- Aspirin; Clopidogrel; Grapefruit
- Age restrictions
- Approved for adults.
Patient summary
Cilostazol tablets for intermittent claudication, the leg pain from blocked arteries. It widens blood vessels and helps blood flow during walking.
Mechanism of action
Inhibits PDE3, raising intracellular cAMP to relax vascular smooth muscles and block platelet cross-linking.
Pregnancy and breastfeeding
Pregnancy: Use only if potential benefit outweighs risk. Breastfeeding: Not recommended.
What you will receive
Pletal is used here as a reference originator brand name to identify the medicine. We are not affiliated with the brand owner, and this listing does not offer the originator product.
- The supplied product is a generic equivalent containing Cilostazol, not the originator brand shown as the reference.
- The exact generic brand, manufacturer and dispatch location are confirmed based on the product, destination and available manufacturer or partner warehouse.
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