Trental
Pentoxifylline tablets for leg pain from poor circulation. It helps blood flow more easily through narrowed vessels.
- Category
- Pain & Anti-inflammatories
- Active ingredient
- Pentoxifylline
- Route
- Oral use
- Form
- Tablet
- Strengths
- 400mg
This listing uses Trental as a reference name. A generic equivalent is supplied; its exact brand and manufacturer are confirmed before supply.
Prescription and consultation requirements for Trental vary by destination and are determined by the fulfilment partner.
Trental details
- Condition
- Intermittent Claudication
- Alternative names
- pentoxifylline
- Therapeutic class
- Xanthine Derivative
- Pharmacological class
- Haemorheologic Agent
- Known off-label uses
- alcoholic hepatitis
- Minor side effects
- nausea; vomiting; dizziness
- Moderate side effects
- dyspepsia; headache; flushing
- Serious side effects
- severe pathological haemorrhage, requires immediate medical attention
- Dosage forms
- Tablet
- Administration route
- Oral use
- Supply category
- Prescription-only medicine (POM)
- Originator
- Sanofi-Aventis
- Onset Time
- 2–4 weeks
- Duration
- 8–12 hours
- Storage instructions
- Store below 25°C.
- Drug interactions
- Warfarin; Aspirin; Theophylline
- Age restrictions
- Approved for adults.
Contraindications
active cerebral or retinal haemorrhage; recent myocardial infarction; hypersensitivity to xanthines
Patient summary
Pentoxifylline tablets for leg pain from poor circulation. It helps blood flow more easily through narrowed vessels.
Mechanism of action
Improves erythrocyte flexibility, lowers blood viscosity, and decreases platelet cross-linking, optimising microcirculation.
Pregnancy and breastfeeding
Pregnancy: Use if potential benefits outweigh risks. Breastfeeding: Expelled in milk.
What you will receive
Trental 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 Pentoxifylline, 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.
- Check the final product details at checkout before confirming an order.