Prograf and Promacta

• Generic Name: tacrolimus
• Dosage Forms: capsule, gelatin coated; injection, solution
• Other Brand Names: Prograf, Astagraf XL, Envarsus XR, Hecoria

Prograf (tacrolimus) weakens your body's immune system, to help keep it from "rejecting" a transplanted organ such as a kidney. Organ rejection happens when the immune system treats the new organ as an invader and attacks it.

Prograf is a prescription medicine and is used together with other medicines to prevent your body from rejecting a heart, liver, or kidney transplant.

Prograf is supplied as oral capsules, granules for oral suspension, and as an injection for intravenous use.

• Generic Name: eltrombopag
• Dosage Forms: tablet, film coated
• Other Brand Names: Promacta

Promacta (eltrombopag) is a man-made form of a protein that increases production of platelets (blood-clotting cells) in your body. Eltrombopag can lower the risk of bleeding by increasing platelets in your blood.

Promacta is used to prevent bleeding episodes in people with chronic immune thrombocytopenic purpura (ITP), a bleeding condition caused by a lack of platelets in the blood. This medicine is for use in adults and children who are at least 1 year old, after other medicines have been tried without success.

Promacta is also used to prevent bleeding in adults with chronic hepatitis C who are treated with an interferon (such as Intron A, Infergen, Pegasys, PegIntron, Rebetron, Redipen, or Sylatron).

Promacta is also used together with other medications to treat severe aplastic anemia in adults and children who are at least 2 years old.

Promacta is not a cure for ITP and it will not make your platelet counts normal if you have this condition.