ATC Group: B06AB Heme products

The World Health Organization's ATC classification organizes medical drugs based on therapeutic properties, chemical composition, and anatomy. It helps make essential medicines readily available globally and is widely used in the pharmaceutical industry.

Position of B06AB in the ATC hierarchy

Level Code Title
1 B Blood and blood forming organs
2 B06 Other hematological agents
3 B06A Other hematological agents
4 B06AB Heme products

Group B06AB contents

Code Title
B06AB01

Active ingredients in B06AB

Active Ingredient Description
Hemin

Hemin arginate is indicated for hepatic porphyria (intermittent acute porphyria, porphyria variegata and hereditary coproporphyria). Hemin, by contributing to the re-establishment of normal levels of haemoproteins and of respiratory pigments, corrects the biological disorders observed in patients with porphyria.

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