Can Theophylline Be Used To Manage Dyspnea?

Posted on Mon, 13 Feb 2017

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Question : can theophylline be used to lesson the effects of dyspnea from using brilinta by heart patients ?

Answered by Dr. Panagiotis Zografakis (48 minutes later)

Brief Answer:
there are some reports about that but no indication so far...

Detailed Answer:
Hello,

brilinta causes shortness of breath very often. Although there are reports from various studies about the usefulness of theophylline to attenuate the biochemical effect of brilinta that causes shortness of breath, they're not yet conclusive. Therefore - as far as I know - there is such indication. Besides that it would feel a little strange to take a drug in order to reduce or reverse the side effects of another drug...

I hope it helps!
Kind Regards!

Above answer was peer-reviewed by : Dr. Chakravarthy Mazumdar