Drug Groups

approved

Description

Bopindolol (INN) is a beta blocker. It is an ester which acts as a prodrug for "pindolol":http://drugbank.ca/drugs/DB00960.

Indication

For the management of hypertension, edema, ventricular tachycardias, and atrial fibrillation.

Pharmacology

Bopindolol is a prodrug of pindolol. Pindolol is a non-selective beta-adrenergic antagonist (beta-blocker) which possesses intrinsic sympathomimetic activity (ISA) in therapeutic dosage ranges but does not possess quinidine-like membrane stabilizing activity. Pindolol impairs AV node conduction and decreases sinus rate and may also increase plasma triglycerides and decrease HDL-cholesterol levels. Pindolol is nonpolar and hydrophobic, with low to moderate lipid solubility. Pindolol has little to no intrinsic sympathomimetic activity and, unlike some other beta-adrenergic blocking agents, pindolol has little direct myocardial depressant activity and does not have an anesthetic-like membrane-stabilizing action.

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