Antihypertensive drug Inderal is out of stock in Portugal
The antihypertensive drug Inderal is out of stock in Portugal, this Friday the head of Infarmed, anticipating that the company is intensified by the promotion to intensify the replacement data scheduled for the beginning of next year.
The National Medicines and Health Products Authority (Infarmed) published a information circular stating that “those containing propranolol (Inderal, coated tablets, 10 and 40 mg) are in a ‘stock break'”, preventing this break from continuing until the beginning of the year 2023.
Therefore, Infarmed is analyzing the possibility of using medicines labeled in a foreign language.” pharmacists will acquire this medicine from the exceptional use authorization mechanism”, underlined Infarmed.
Bearing this situation in mind, Infarmed recommends that doctors, whenever possible, prescribe therapeutic alternatives to this drug, which is “an antihypertensive drug belonging to the class of non-selective cardiac beta blockers”.
It also mentions that the company responsible for marketing, treating and preventing myocardial infarction, angina, cardiac arrhythmias, for example.