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Regitine (Phentolamine Mesylate) - Description and Clinical Pharmacology

 
 



Regitine®

C98-25
665490

      Regitine ®

      phentolamine mesylate for injection, USP

      Vials

      Rx only

      Prescribing Information

DESCRIPTION

Regitine, phentolamine mesylate for injection, USP, is an antihypertensive, available in vials for intravenous and intramuscular administration. Each vial contains phentolamine mesylate USP, 5 mg, and mannitol USP, 25 mg, in sterile, lyophilized form.

Phentolamine mesylate is 4,5-dihydro-2-[N-(m -hydroxyphenyl)-N-(p -methylphenyl) aminomethyl]-1 H -imidazole 1:1 methanesulfonate, and its structural formula is

Phentolamine mesylate for injection, USP, is a white or off-white, odorless crystalline powder with a molecular weight of 377.46. Its solutions are acid to litmus. It is freely soluble in water and in alcohol, and slightly soluble in chloroform. It melts at about 178ºC.

CLINICAL PHARMACOLOGY

Regitine produces an alpha-adrenergic block of relatively short duration. It also has direct, but less marked, positive inotropic and chronotropic effects on cardiac muscle and vasodilator effects on vascular smooth muscle.

Regitine has a half-life in the blood of 19 minutes following intravenous administration. Approximately 13% of a single intravenous dose appears in the urine as unchanged drug.

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