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Ethanol (Ethyl Alcohol), Intravenous and Injection

Ethanol (Ethyl Alcohol), Intravenous and Injection is not a formal standalone therapeutic class, but rather a dosage form and active ingredient grouping encompassing parenteral formulations of dehydrated alcohol. Read more about Ethanol (Ethyl Alcohol), Intravenous and Injection

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Ethanol (Ethyl Alcohol), Intravenous and Injection is not a formal standalone therapeutic class, but rather a dosage form and active ingredient grouping encompassing parenteral formulations of dehydrated alcohol.

When administered via intravenous infusion, it functions primarily as a competitive alcohol dehydrogenase inhibitor to block the formation of toxic metabolites in acute methanol or ethylene glycol poisoning.

When administered by local injection, it acts as a sclerosing, neurolytic, or ablative agent that causes cell dehydration and tissue necrosis, which is utilized for therapeutic neurolysis in severe intractable pain, percutaneous ethanol ablation in vascular malformations, and transcatheter septal ablation in symptomatic hypertrophic obstructive cardiomyopathy.