FEBUNEX – 40 Tablets

Lowers Uric acid Levels Safely

Febuxostat 40mg

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Description

Febuxostat

Drug Class: Xanthine oxidase inhibitors

  • A urate lowering drug, an inhibitor of xanthine oxidase that achieves its therapeutic effect by decreasing serum uric acid.
  • A non-purine selective inhibitor of xanthine oxidase that works by non-competitively blocking the molybdenum pterin center which is the active site on xanthine oxidase.
  • Seems to be a promising therapeutic drug for gout or hyperuricemia, even in patients with renal dysfunction. 1
  • A highly efficacious urate-lowering therapy in patients with gout regardless of overproduction or underexcretion status. 
  • An option for the management of chronic hyperuricemia in gout only for people who are intolerant to allopurinol or for whom allopurinol is contraindicated. 

Composition

Febuxostat 40mg

Indications

  1. Hyper uricemia
  2. Gout