- Name of the medicinal product
Trimetazidine Hydrochloride Modified Release Tablets 35mg Taj Pharma
- Qualitative and quantitative composition
Each film-coated modified-release tablet contains:
Trimetazidine hydrochloride BP?? 35mg
Excipients?????????????????????? ?????????????????q.s
Colour: Tartrazine
For the full list of excipients, see section 6.1.
- Pharmaceutical form
Modified-release tablet.
- Clinical particulars
4.1? Therapeutic indications
?Trimetazidine is indicated in adults as add-on therapy for the symptomatic treatment of patients with stable angina pectoris who are inadequately controlled by or intolerant to first-line antianginal therapies.
4.2? Posology and method of administration
The dose is one tablet of 35mg of trimetazidine twice daily during meals.
Special populations
Patients with renal impairment
In patients with moderate renal impairment (creatinine clearance [30-60] ml/min) (see sections 4.4 and 5.2), the recommended dose is 1 tablet of 35mg in the morning during breakfast.
Elderly patients
Elderly patients may have increased trimetazidine exposure due to age-related decrease in renal function (see section 5.2). In patients with moderate renal impairment (creatinine clearance [30-60] ml/min), the recommended dose is 1 tablet of 35mg in the morning during breakfast.
Dose titration in elderly patients should be exercised with caution (see section 4.4).
Paediatric population:
The safety and efficacy of trimetazidine in children aged below 18 years have not been established. No data are available.
4.3? Contraindications
?? Hypersensitivity to the active substance or to any of the excipients listed in section 6.1
? Parkinson disease, parkinsonian symptoms, tremors, restless leg syndrome, and other related movement disorders
?? Severe renal impairment (creatinine clearance < 30ml/min)
4.4? Special warnings and precautions for use
Trimetazidine can cause or worsen parkinsonian symptoms (tremor, akinesia, hypertonia), which should be regularly investigated, especially in elderly patients. In doubtful cases, patients should be referred to a neurologist for appropriate investigations.
The occurrence of movement disorders such as parkinsonian symptoms, restless leg syndrome, tremors, gait instability should lead to definitive withdrawal of trimetazidine.
These cases have a low incidence and are usually reversible after treatment discontinuation. The majority of the patients recovered within 4 months after trimetazidine withdrawal. If parkinsonian symptoms persist more than 4 months after drug discontinuation, a neurologist opinion should be sought.
Falls may occur, related to gait instability or hypotension, in particular in patients taking antihypertensive treatment (see section 4.8).
Caution should be exercised when prescribing trimetazidine to patients in whom an increased exposure is expected:
- moderate renal impairment (see sections 4.2 and 5.2),
- elderly patients older than 75 years old (see section 4.2)
4.5? Interaction with other medicinal products and other forms of interaction
Occurrence of interactions with other medicinal products or foodstuffs has not been found.
Trimetazidine can be used with heparin, calciparine, oral anticoagulants, medicinal products used in disturbances of lipid metabolism, salicylic acid, ?-adrenolytic medicinal products, calcium channel blocking medicinal products, digitalis glycosides.
4.6? Fertility, pregnancy and lactation
Pregnancy
There are no adequate data from the use of Trimetazidine in pregnant women. Animal studies are insufficient (see section 5.3). The potential risk for humans is unknown. Trimetazidine should not be taken during pregnancy unless clearly necessary.
Lactation
It is unknown whether trimetazidine is excreted in human or animal breast milk. Since excretion in breast milk and a risk to the suckling child cannot be excluded, trimetazidine should not be used during breast-feeding.
4.7? Effects on ability to drive and use machines
Trimetazidine does not have haemodynamic effects in clinical studies, however cases of dizziness and drowsiness have been observed in post-marketing experience (see section 4.8), which may affect ability to drive and use machines.
4.8? Undesirable effects
Classification of expected frequencies:
Very common (?1/10); common (?1/100 to <1/10); uncommon (?1/1,000 to <1/100); rare (?1/10,000 to <1/1,000); very rare (<1/10,000), not known (cannot be estimated from the available data).
System Organ Class | Frequency | Preferred Term |
Nervous system disorders | Common | Dizziness, headache |
Not known | Parkinsonian symptoms (tremor, akinesia, | |
hypertonia), gait instability, restlessleg | ||
syndrome, other related movement | ||
disorders, usually reversible after treatment | ||
discontinuation | ||
Not known | Sleep disorders (insomnia, drowsiness) | |
Cardiac disorders | Rare | Palpitations, extrasystoles, tachycardia |
Vascular disorders | Rare | Arterial Hypotension , Orthostatic |
hypotension that may be associated with | ||
malaise, dizziness or fall, in particular in | ||
patients taking antihypertensive | ||
treatment, | ||
flushing | ||
Gastrointestinal disorders | Common | Abdominal pain, diarrhoea, dyspepsia, |
nausea and vomiting | ||
Not known | Constipation | |
Skin and subcutaneous tissue | Common | Rash, pruritus, urticaria. |
disorders | Not known | Acute generalized exanthematuspustulosis |
(AGEP), angioedema | ||
General disorders and | Common | Asthenia |
administration conditions | ||
Blood and lymphatic system | Not known | Agranulocytosis |
disorders | Thrombocytopenia | |
Thrombocytopenic purpura | ||
Hepatobiliary disorders | Not known | Hepatitis |
4.9? Overdose |
No cases of occurrence of poisoning by trimetazidine owing to its overdose have been reported.
- Pharmacological properties
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- 1 Pharmacodynamic properties
Pharmacotherapeutic group: Other cardiac preparation
Trimetazidine inhibits ?-oxidation of fatty acids by blocking long-chain 3-ketoacyl-CoA thiolase, which enhances glucose oxidation. In an ischaemic cell, energy obtained during glucose oxidation requires less oxygen consumption than in the ?-oxidation process. Potentiation of glucose oxidation optimizes cellular energy processes, thereby maintaining proper energy metabolism during ischaemia.
Pharmacodynamic effects
In patients with ischaemic heart disease, trimetazidine acts as a metabolic agent, preserving the myocardial high-energy phosphate intracellular levels. Anti-ischemic effects are achieved without concomitant haemodynamic effects.
Clinical efficacy and safety
Clinical studies have demonstrated the efficacy and safety of trimetazidine in the treatment of patients with chronic angina, either alone or when the benefit from other antianginal medicinal products was insufficient.
In a 426-patients randomized, double blind, placebo-controlled study (TRIMPOL-II), trimetazidine (60mg/day) added to metoprolol 100mg daily (50 mg b.i.d) for 12 weeks significantly improved statistically exercise tests parameters and clinical symptoms as compared to placebo: total exercise duration +20.1s, p= 0.023, total workload +0.54 METs, p=0.001, time to 1-mm ST-segment depression +33.4s, p=0.003, time to onset of angina +33.9s, p<0.001, angina attacks/week -0.73, p=0.014 and short acting nitrates consumption/week, -0.63, p=0.032, without hemodynamic changes.
In a 223 patients randomized, double blind, placebo-controlled study (Sellier), one 35 mg trimetazidine modified release tablet (b.i.d.) added to 50 mg atenolol (o.d.) for 8 weeks produced a significant increase (+34.4s, p=0.03) in the time to 1-mm ST-segment depression in exercise tests, in a sub-group of patients (n=173), when compared to placebo, 12 hours after taking the drug. A significant difference was also evidenced for the time to onset of angina pectoris (p=0.049). No significant difference between groups could be found for the other secondary endpoints (total exercise duration, total workload and clinical endpoints).
In a 1962 patients three-month randomised, double-blinded study (Vasco study) on top of atenolol 50 mg/d, two dosages of trimetazidine (70 mg/d and 140 mg/d) were tested versus placebo. In the overall population, including both asymptomatic and symptomatic patients, trimetazidine failed to demonstrate a benefit on both ergometric (total exercise duration, time to onset of 1mm ST and time to onset angina) and clinical endpoints. However, in the subgroup of symptomatic patients (n= 1574) defined in a post-hoc analysis, trimetazidine (140 mg) significantly improved total exercise duration (+23.8 s versus +13.1 s placebo; p=0.001) and time to onset of angina (+46.3 s versus +32.5 s placebo; p=0.005).
5.2? Pharmacokinetic properties
Absorption
Trimetazidine after oral administration and absorption from the digestive tract reaches the maximum concentration in the serum after about 5 hours from administration of the drug.
The steady concentration of the drug in the serum is reached after 60 hours and is stable throughout the period of treatment. No interactions with foodstuffs have been found.
Distribution
The drug binds to plasma proteins at about 16%. The volume of distribution is 4.8 l/kg, which means good penetration of the drug into the tissues.
Elimination
Trimetazidine is eliminated mainly in the urine, in unchanged form. The average half-life is 7 hours, in patients over age 65 years it increases to 12 hours.
Pharmacokinetics in special populations
No pharmacokinetic data are available for the use of trimetazidine in hepatically impaired patients.
5.3? Preclinical safety data
The acute toxicity of trimetazidine in mice, rats and guinea pigs is low. Repeated- dose toxicity studies with trimetazidine have been performed in rats and in dogs and no toxicological target organ was identified in these studies. Trimetazidine was not genotoxic in a standard battery of in vitro and in vivo tests. Reproductive toxicity studies were performed with trimetazidine in rats, mice and rabbits, and no adverse effects of trimetazidine on reproductive function (especially no teratogenic effects) were observed.
In embryotoxicity studies in rats and rabbits, trimetazidine did not show any teratogenic effects. No modifications of reproductive functions were observed in a three generation study performed in rats. No conventional studies on fertility or pre/postnatal development were performed.
- Pharmaceutical particulars
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6.1? List of excipients
Hydroxypropyl methylcellulose, Calcium Hydrogen phosphate, Magnesium stearate, Colloidal anhydrous silica, Stearic acid, Macrogol, Glycerine, Titanium dioxide, Iron oxide red.
6.2? Incompatibilities
Not applicable.
6.3? Shelf life
3 Years
6.4? Special precautions for storage
Do not store above 30 ?C.
6.5? Nature and contents of container
Blisters (PVC/aluminium) in packs of 7, 14, 28, 30, 50, 100 and 500 modified release tablets.
Not all pack sizes may be marketed.
6.6? Special precautions for disposal <and other handling>
No special requirements
7. Manufactured In India By:
TAJ PHARMACEUTICALS LTD.
Mumbai, India
Unit No. 214.Old Bake House,
Maharashtra chambers of ?Commerce Lane,
Fort, Mumbai – 400001
at:Gujarat, INDIA.
Customer Service and Product Inquiries:
1-800-TRY-FIRST (1-800-222-434 & 1-800-222-825)
Monday through Saturday 9:00 a.m. to 7:00 p.m. EST
E-mail:?tajgroup@tajpharma.com
Trimetazidine Hydrochloride Modified Release Tablets 35mg Taj Pharma
(Trimetazidine Hydrochloride)
Package leaflet: Information for the user
Read all of this leaflet carefully before you start taking this medicine because it contains important information for you.
- Keep this leaflet. You may need to read it again.
- If you have any further questions, ask your doctor or pharmacist.
- This medicine has been prescribed for you only. Do not pass it on to others. It may harm them, even if their signs of illness are the same as yours.
- If you get any side effects, talk to your doctor or pharmacist. This includes any possible side effects not listed in this leaflet.
What is in this leaflet
- What Trimetazidine is and what it is used for
- What you need to know before you take Trimetazidine
- How to take Trimetazidine
- Possible side effects
- How to store Trimetazidine
- Contents of the pack and other information
- What Trimetazidine 35mg is and what it is used for
This medicine is intended for use in adult patient, in combination with other medicines to treat angina pectoris (chest pain caused by coronary disease).
- What you need to know before you take/use Trimetazidine
Do not take Trimetazidine
- if you are allergic to trimetazidine or any of the other ingredients of this medicine (listed in section 6),
- if you have a Parkinson disease: disease of the brain affecting movement (trembling, rigid posture, slow movements and a shuffling, unbalanced walk),
- if you have severe kidney problems.
Warnings and precautions
Talk to your doctor or pharmacist before taking Trimetazidine
- if you suffer from kidney problems. Your doctor may adjust the dose.
This medicine can cause or worsen symptoms such as trembling, rigid posture, slow movements and a shuffling, unbalanced walk, especially in elderly patients, which should be investigated and reported to your doctor who could reassess the treatment.
Children and adolescents
Trimetazidine is not recommended in children aged below 18 years.
Other medicines and Trimetazidine
Tell your doctor or pharmacist if you are taking, have recently taken or might take any other medicines.
Occurrence of interactions with other medicinal products has not been found.
Trimetazidine with food and drink
Trimetazidine ?can be taken irrespective of food and drink.
Pregnancy and breast-feeding
If you are pregnant or breast-feeding, think you may be pregnant or are planning to have a baby, ask your doctor or pharmacist for advice before taking this medicine.
Driving and using machines
This medicine may make you feel dizzy and drowsy that may affect your ability to drive or use machinery.
- How to take/use Trimetazidine
Always take this medicine exactly as your doctor has told you. Check with your doctor or pharmacist if you are not sure.
The recommended dose of Trimetazidine ?is one tablet to be taken two times a day during meals in the morning and evening.
If you have kidney problems or if you are older than 75 years old, your doctor may adjust the recommended dose.
Method of use
Tablets for oral use.
Please take the tablets with sufficient amount of liquid,? e.g. a glass of water.
If you take more Trimetazidine than you should
No cases of occurrence of poisoning by the medicinal product owing to an overdose has been reported.
If you forget to take Trimetazidine
Do not take a double dose to make up for a forgotten tablet/dose.
If you stop taking Trimetazidine
Do not stop taking your medicine without consulting your doctor.
If you have any further questions on the use of this product, ask your doctor or pharmacist.
- Possible Side effects
Like all medicines, this medicine can cause side effects, although not everybody gets them.
Common (may affect up to 1 in 10 people):
Dizziness, headache, abdominal pain, diarrhoea, indigestion, feeling sick, vomiting, rash, itching, hives and feeling of weakness.
Rare (may affect up to 1 in 1,000 people):
Fast or irregular heartbeats (also called palpitations), extra heartbeats, faster heartbeat, fall in blood pressure on standing-up which causes dizziness, light headiness or fainting, malaise (generally feeling unwell), dizziness, fall, flushing.
Not known (frequency cannot be estimated from the available data):
Extrapyramidal symptoms (unusual movements, including trembling and shaking of the hands and fingers, twisting movements of the body, shuffling walk and stiffness of the arms and legs), usually reversible after treatment discontinuation.
Sleep disorders (difficulty in sleeping, drowsiness), constipation, seriousgeneralised red skin rash with blistering, swelling of the face, lips, mouth, tongue or throat which may cause difficulty in swallowing or breathing.
Severe reduction in number of white blood cells which makes infections more likely, reduction in blood platelets, which increases risk of bleeding or bruising.
A liver disease (nausea, vomiting, loss of appetite, feeling generally unwell, fever, itching, yellowing of the skin and eyes, light coloured bowel motions, dark coloured urine).
If you get any side effects, talk to your doctor or pharmacist. This includes any side effects not listed in this leaflet.
- How to store Trimetazidine
Keep this medicine out of the sight and reach of children.
Do not use this medicine after the expiry date which is stated on the carton and blister. The expiry date refers
to the last day of that month.
Do not store above 30 ?C.
Do not throw away any medicines via wastewater or household waste. Ask your pharmacist how to throw away medicines you no longer use. These measures will help protect the environment.
- Contents of the pack and other information
What Trimetazidine ?contains
Each film-coated modified-release tablet contains:
Trimetazidine hydrochloride BP?? 35mg
Excipients??????????????????????????????????????? q.s
Colour: Tartrazine
Nature and contents of container
Blisters (PVC/aluminium) in packs of 7, 14, 28, 30, 50, 100 and 500 modified release tablets.
Not all pack sizes may be marketed.
7. Manufactured In India By:
TAJ PHARMACEUTICALS LTD.
Mumbai, India
Unit No. 214.Old Bake House,
Maharashtra chambers of ?Commerce Lane,
Fort, Mumbai – 400001
at:Gujarat, INDIA.
Customer Service and Product Inquiries:
1-800-TRY-FIRST (1-800-222-434 & 1-800-222-825)
Monday through Saturday 9:00 a.m. to 7:00 p.m. EST
E-mail:?tajgroup@tajpharma.com