Tablets - 40 mg

Monopan contains as active substance isosorbide 5 – mononitrate, which belongs to the group of nitrates with a vasodilator action. Nitrates are used for the treatment and prevention of the symptoms of angina pectoris (chest pain) and other heart conditions including heart failure. Angina is a pain or tightness of the chest caused by lack of oxygen reaching the heart muscle. Nitrates work in two different ways. They widen the arteries that carry blood to the heart muscle and relax the veins that return blood from the body to the heart. Both these actions allow more oxygen to reach the heart muscle and reduce the work of the heart. In this way an acute attack of angina is prevented and the pain associated with an acute attack of angina is relieved.