Pirfenidone

2 Drugs classified under this active ingredient

Immunosuppressant. Pirfenidone 267 mg.
HARD CAPS.: 252, 270. The recom. dly.
dose is 801 mg(3 caps.) × 3/d with food
for a total of 2403 mg/day. See lit.
Tmt. of mild to moder. idiop. pulmon.
fibrosis in adult.
C/I: Hypersens. Hist.of angioed. with
pirfenidone. Concom. use of fluvoxamine. Sev. hep. impair. or end stage liver dis. Sev. renal impair.(CrCl <30 ml/min) or end stage
renal dis. requir. dialysis.