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OptiPranolol® (metipranolol ophthalmic solution) 0.3%
OptiPranolol® is a time-tested option for your patients with open-angle glaucoma or ocular hypertension.
In clinical studies, OptiPranolol exhibited comparable efficacy to timolol maleate 0.5% ophthalmic solution.1-3 OptiPranolol may also result in less impairment of exercise-induced tachycardia and has less potential for systemic beta blockade.3
Key Benefits
- Time-tested beta-blocker with over half a million new prescriptions written since 19962
- Effective IOP control
- Significantly reduced impact on exercise-induced tachycardia
- Color-coded yellow cap minimizes risk of selecting an inappropriate medication
Contraindications
OptiPranolol ophthalmic solution is contraindicated in patients with bronchial asthma or a history of bronchial asthma, or severe chronic pulmonary disease; symptomatic sinus bradycardia; greater than a first degree atrioventricular block; cardiogenic shock; or overt cardiac failure.
1 Retrospective review of IOP control after
conversion from Timolol 0.5% to Metipranolol 0.3%.
2 BAL 9302 - Data on file at Bausch & Lomb Pharmaceuticals,
Inc.
3 Rolando M et al. Glaucoma. 1989;11:27-30.
