Active Ingredient: Tipranavir
Tipranavir, co-administered with low dose ritonavir, is indicated for combination antiretroviral treatment of HIV-1 infection in highly pre-treated adults and adolescents 12 years of age or older with virus resistant to multiple protease inhibitors. Tipranavir should only be used as part of an active combination antiretroviral regimen in patients with no other therapeutic options.
For this indication, competent medicine agencies globally authorize below treatments:
Oral
1,000 - 1,000 mg
From 500 To 500 mg 2 time(s) per day every day
The recommended dose of tipranavir is 500 mg, co-administered with 200 mg ritonavir (low dose ritonavir), twice daily.
Doses of ritonavir lower than 200 mg twice daily should not be used as they might alter the efficacy profile of the combination.
Since currently only limited efficacy and safety data are available for adolescents close monitoring of virologic response and tolerance is particularly warranted in this patient group.
Patients should be advised of the need to take tipranavir and ritonavir every day as prescribed. If a dose is missed by more than 5 hours, the patient should be instructed to wait and then to take the next dose of tipranavir and ritonavir at the regularly scheduled time. If a dose is missed by less than 5 hours, the patient should be instructed to take the missed dose immediately, and then to take the next dose of tipranavir and ritonavir at the regularly scheduled time.
Clinical studies of tipranavir did not include sufficient numbers of subjects aged 65 and over to determine whether they respond differently from younger subjects. In general, caution should be exercised in the administration and monitoring of tipranavir in older people reflecting the greater frequency of decreased hepatic, renal, or cardiac function, and of concomitant disease or other therapy.
It should be taken with food.
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