About VIPROFINA
This medicine contains the active ingredient Finasteride.
Finasteride is a synthetic antiandrogen which acts by inhibiting type II 5-alpha reductase, the enzyme that converts testosterone to dihydrotestosterone (DHT). It is used as a treatment in benign prostatic hyperplasia (BPH) in low doses, and prostate cancer.
It is a treatment of male pattern hair loss used to treat the symptoms of baldness in men with mild to moderate hair loss on the top of the head and the front of the mid-scalp area. It works only on scalp hair and does not affect hair on other parts of the body.