Corticosteroid inhalation treatment method
US5192528A · kind A · utility
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| Filing date | Dec 1, 1989 |
| Grant date | Mar 9, 1993 |
| Priority date | — |
| Expiry date | Dec 1, 2009 |
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- Technology area (CPC Y)Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies
- CPC primaryY10T428/2984
- WIPO fieldPharmaceuticals
- WIPO sectorChemistry
Abstract
A method for delivering a therapeutic dosage of corticosteroid drug to the lungs, for treating a lung condition or disease. An aqueous suspension of sized liposomes containing the drug in liposome-entrapped form is aerosolized under conditions which produce aerosol particle sizes favoring particle deposition in a selected region of the respiratory tract, and the aerosol is administered in an amount which delivers the thereapeutic dosage level to the selected lung region.
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