ATC Group: A16AX12 Trientine

The World Health Organization's ATC classification organizes medical drugs based on therapeutic properties, chemical composition, and anatomy. It helps make essential medicines readily available globally and is widely used in the pharmaceutical industry.

Position of A16AX12 in the ATC hierarchy

Level Code Title
1 A Alimentary tract and metabolism
2 A16 Other alimentary tract and metabolism products
3 A16A Other alimentary tract and metabolism products
4 A16AX Various alimentary tract and metabolism products
5 A16AX12

Active ingredients in A16AX12

Active Ingredient

Trientine is a copper-chelating agent whose principal mechanism of action is to eliminate absorbed copper from the body by forming a stable complex that is then eliminated through urinary excretion. Trientine may also chelate copper in the intestinal tract and so inhibit copper absorption.

Related product monographs

Document Type Information Source  
 CUPRIOR Film-coated tablet MPI, EU: SmPC European Medicines Agency (EU)

Medicines classified under this ATC code globally

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Romania (RO)

Turkey (TR)

United Kingdom (UK)

Note the following: The list of brand names is continuously updated, and thus does not include the total of products circulating worldwide.