In Italy, the active ingredient is available in a single medicinal product with the trade name Aptivus®. It is a hospital drug (band H) that can be released in pharmacies upon presentation of a specific non-repeatable limitative medical prescription or RNRL (drugs that can be sold to the public only on prescription from hospital centers or specialists).
Note: Although tipranavir is always used in combination with other drugs, this article will discuss the warnings, precautions, interactions, side effects, use in pregnancy and lactation and contraindications for tipranavir alone and not for tipranavir administered in combination with other substances. active. For information about the latter, carefully read the package leaflet of the medicines containing them that you must use.
and is used in the treatment of HIV infections resistant to other protease inhibitors, in both adults and children.
Tipranavir should be taken with:
- Low dose ritonavir;
- Other antiretroviral drugs. The doctor will decide which drugs to administer according to the drugs the patient already takes to fight HIV and depending on the drugs to which the HIV infecting the patient is resistant.
