IPF or Lung fibrosis is serious diesease.In USA, FDA recently approved OFEV, the first medicine to treat IPF. Similar medicine for such treatment was manufactured in INDIA, under the name, PIRFENIDONE and some persons who used it had severe side effect on Liver and had to discontinue for this reason.
Understand, similar medication is available in Europe under the name, ESBRIET Also understand, there is similar medication under the name, NINTEDANIB for Lung Fibrosis. All these names are confusing; can someone help clarify about these four different names or really four different medications for IPF???
What is the difference between ofev, nintedanib, esbriet & pirfenidone?
Question posted by RealFriend on 15 March 2015
Last updated on 4 March 2016 by Popstuff
Added 15 March 2015:
After getting further info that Nintedanib is generic name of OFEV; while Pirfenodone is generic name of ESBRIET. The question is reduced to getting Clarification about : DIFFERANCE between (1) ESBRIET and (2) OFEV
Added 15 March 2015:After getting further info that Nintedanib is generic name of OFEV; while Pirfenodone is generic name of ESBRIET. The question is reduced to getting Clarification about : DIFFERANCE between (1) ESBRIET and (2) OFEV
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Popstuff
5 March 2016
Okay, so the question now is, what is the difference between Ofev and Esbriet?
suzanne66
19 Oct 2015
There are only TWO drugs involved here.
OFev and Esbriet are brand names for the drugs nintedanib and pirfenidone respectively.
Ofev is the band name for nintedanib which is used to treat a lung disease called idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis (IPF).
Esbriet is the brand name for the drug pirfenidone and is also used to treat IPF.
For more information see:
https://www.drugs.com/esbriet.html
https://www.drugs.com/ofev.html
Related topics
idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis, pulmonary fibrosis, pirfenidone, nintedanib, ofev, esbriet
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- Pirfenidone uses and warnings
- Nintedanib uses and warnings
- Ofev uses and warnings
- Esbriet uses and warnings
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