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Benzothiazepine Drug Class

Medicines in this drug class are grouped together in the Everyone Healthy medication database. This page is educational only and should not be used as personal prescribing advice.

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Caution: A drug class groups medicines that may share similar actions or uses. Individual medicines in the same class can still have different cautions, interactions and suitability.

Drug class overview

Benzothiazepine overview

Thiazepine

1,3-thiazepine

1,4-thiazepine

Thiazepines are a substituted thiepins, with a nitrogen replacing a carbon in the seven-membered heterocyclic compound.

Types include:

Benzothiazepines (such as diltiazem) have a single benzene attached to the ring, while dibenzothiazepines have two.

Diltiazem, a benzothiazepine, is intermediate in properties between verapamil and the dihydropyridines.
Diltiazem is used to treat variant angina (Prinzmetal's angina), either naturally occurring or drug-induced and stable angina.

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MeSH Thiazepines

Linked medicines

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