NEW ORLEANS--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Data from two Appearance III studies of Merck’s investigational fixed-dose combinations of mometasone furoate and formoterol fumarate (MF/F) were presented by advisers today in two affiche presentations at the American Academy of Allergy, Asthma & Immunology (AAAAI) anniversary meeting.
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A New Biologic Application (NDA) for MF/F is currently beneath appraisal by the U.S. Aliment and Biologic Administering (FDA). Merck has additionally submitted a Business Authorization Application (MAA) for MF/F to the European Medicines Appraisal Agency (EMEA). MF/F combines the alive additive of an inhaled corticosteroid, ASMANEX® TWISTHALER® (mometasone furoate assimilation powder), with the alive additive of a long-acting beta2-agonist, FORADIL® AEROLIZER® (formoterol fumarate assimilation powder), administered via a distinct metered-dose inhaler.
"Asthma is a accustomed and circuitous disease. After-effects from these studies admonition us to bigger accept the abeyant role of MF/F in asthma management,” said Eli Meltzer, M.D., co-director of the Abhorrence & Asthma Medical Accession and Research Center in San Diego, California and abstraction investigator.
The aboriginal randomized, multicenter, double-blind, placebo-controlled abstraction adjourned the adeptness and assurance of MF/F 100/10mcg administered via a metered dosage inhaler (MDI) alert circadian in patients 12 years of age and earlier with assiduous asthma ahead brash with low dosage inhaled corticosteroids with or afterwards a long-acting beta2-agonist. Patients were assigned to a two-to-three anniversary open-label, altercation aeon with mometasone furoate MDI 100mcg alert circadian above-mentioned to abstraction randomization. A complete of 746 patients were afresh randomized to 26 weeks of double-blind, alert circadian appraisal with: MF/F (100/10mcg), mometasone furoate MDI (100mcg), formoterol MDI (10mcg) or placebo.
The co-primary endpoints of the abstraction were the allegory of MF/F adjoin formoterol in time-to-first astringent asthma deepening over 26 weeks and the allegory of MF/F adjoin mometasone furoate in the anniversary 12 breadth beneath the concentration-time ambit (AUC) over baseline for affected expiratory aggregate in one added (FEV1), abstinent from 0 to 12 hours. In this study, a astringent asthma deepening was authentic as a allusive abridgement in lung activity or an accident of any analytic abasement of asthma connected in emergency treatment, hospitalization, or appraisal with added asthma medication that was afar from the analytic studies (such as an articulate or systemic steroid).
Compared with formoterol, MF/F 100/10mcg alert circadian added time-to-first astringent deepening and decreased the admeasurement of patients experiencing astringent exacerbations over the advance of the study; 16.5 percent of patients brash with MF/F 100/10mcg alert circadian able astringent exacerbations adjoin 44.7 percent of formoterol-treated patients (p<0.001).
Compared with mometasone furoate, patients accepting MF/F 100/10mcg alert circadian showed improvements in lung function. After-effects showed the beggarly FEV1 AUC (0-12h) over baseline at anniversary 12 was 4.00 liter-hours in patients accepting MF/F 100/10mcg alert circadian compared with 2.53 liter-hours in patients accepting mometasone furoate 100mcg alert circadian (p=0.001).
The best accustomed appraisal appearing adverse contest occurring in the MF/F 100/10mcg alert circadian accession were nasopharyngitis (9.3 percent), cephalalgia (6.6 percent) aerial respiratory amplitude infection (5.5 percent), pharyngolaryngeal affliction (3.8 percent), and pharyngitis (2.7 percent).
The added abstraction presented was a randomized, multicenter, double-blind, placebo-controlled analytic balloon that adjourned the assurance and adeptness of MF/F 200/10mcg administered via MDI alert circadian in patients 12 years of age and earlier with assiduous asthma ahead brash with boilerplate dosage inhaled corticosteroids with or afterwards a long-acting beta2 agonist. Patients were assigned to a two-to-three anniversary open-label, altercation aeon with mometasone furoate MDI 200mcg alert circadian above-mentioned to abstraction randomization. A complete of 781 patients were afresh randomized to 26 weeks of double-blind, alert circadian appraisal with: MF/F (200/10mcg), mometasone furoate MDI (200mcg), formoterol MDI (10mcg) or placebo.
The co-primary endpoints of the abstraction were the allegory of MF/F adjoin formoterol in time-to-first astringent asthma deepening over 26 weeks and the allegory of MF/F adjoin mometasone furoate in the anniversary 12 breadth beneath the concentration-time ambit (AUC) over baseline for affected expiratory aggregate in one added (FEV1), abstinent from 0 to 12 hours. In this study, a astringent asthma deepening was authentic as a allusive abridgement in lung activity or an accident of any analytic abasement of asthma connected in emergency treatment, hospitalization, or appraisal with added asthma medication that was afar from the analytic studies (such as an articulate or systemic steroid).
Compared with formoterol, MF/F 200/10mcg alert circadian added time-to-first astringent deepening and decreased the admeasurement of patients experiencing astringent exacerbations over the advance of the study; 30 percent of patients brash with MF/F 200/10mcg alert circadian able astringent exacerbations adjoin 54 percent of formoterol-treated patients (p<0.001).
Compared with mometasone furoate, patients accepting MF/F 200/10mcg alert circadian showed improvements in lung function. After-effects showed the beggarly FEV1 AUC (0-12h) over baseline at anniversary 12 was 3.11 liter-hours in patients accepting MF/F 200/10mcg alert circadian compared with 1.30 liter-hours in patients accepting mometasone furoate 200mcg alert circadian (p<0.001).
The best accustomed appraisal appearing adverse reactions occurring in the MF/F 200/10mcg alert circadian accession were nasopharyngitis (6.3 percent), aerial respiratory amplitude infection (5.8 percent), cephalalgia (4.7 percent), pharyngitis (4.2 percent), pharyngolaryngeal affliction (3.1 percent), agitation (3.1 percent), viral infection (3.1 percent), bronchitis (2.6 percent), affliction (2.6 percent), rhinitis (2.6 percent), and sinusitis (2.6 percent).
Results from these studies, as able-bodied as six added abstracts from the MF/F analytic development program, are actuality presented at an AAAAI affiche affair from 9:45-10:45 am CST Tuesday, March 2, 2010.
About ASMANEX®TWISTHALER®
ASMANEX® TWISTHALER® (mometasone furoate assimilation powder) is adumbrated for the aliment appraisal of asthma in patients four years of age and older. ASMANEX TWISTHALER will not abate abrupt asthma affection and is not for accouchement beneath the age of four.
ASMANEX TWISTHALER is accessible in two dosage strengths, 110 mcg for accouchement amid 4 and 11 years old, and 220 mcg for patients 12 and older.
Important Assurance Admonition about ASMANEX®TWISTHALER®
ASMANEX TWISTHALER is not a accomplishment inhaler and should not be acclimated to amusement abrupt asthma symptoms. Use a accomplishment inhaler to abate abrupt asthma symptoms. ASMANEX should not be acclimated to amusement astute asthma episodes (including cachet asthmaticus) breadth added measures are required.
ASMANEX is not for patients who accept a hypersensitivity (including allergic reactions) to mometasone or any of the capacity in ASMANEX. There accept been cases of hypersensitivity, allergic reactions, facial swelling, hives and throat bounden reported. Patients who use inhaled steroid medicines for asthma may advance a fungal infection of the aperture and throat. Bathe your aperture afterwards application ASMANEX.
It is accessible that hypercorticism (an balance akin of steroids in your body) or adrenal dearth (your adrenal gland cannot aftermath abundant steroids) may appear in a babyish cardinal of patients, decidedly aback ASMANEX is administered at college than recommended doses over abiding periods of time. If such furnishings occur, argue your bloom affliction provider as the dosage of ASMANEX should be bargain slowly.
If you or your boyish took steroids by aperture and are accepting them decreased or are actuality switched to ASMANEX, you should be followed anxiously by your bloom affliction provider and the articulate steroids should be bargain slowly. Deaths due to adrenal dearth accept occurred during and afterwards switching from articulate steroids to inhaled steroids. Acquaint your bloom affliction provider adapted abroad about any affection such as activity annoyed or exhausted, weakness, nausea, vomiting, or affection of low claret burden (such as blackout or faintness). If you or your boyish is beneath stress, such as with surgery, afterwards surgery, or trauma, you may charge steroids by aperture again.
Avoid advancing in acquaintance with measles, craven pox virus, tuberculosis, or any added infections afore or while application ASMANEX. Acquaintance your bloom affliction provider anon if you or your boyish accept been exposed.
Patients who use inhaled steroids, including ASMANEX, for a connected time may accept an added accident of decreased cartilage mass, which can affect cartilage strength. Patients who are at added accident of decreased cartilage accession should be monitored.
Inhaled steroids, including ASMANEX, may annual a abridgement in advance acceleration aback administered to pediatric patients. The abiding aftereffect on final developed acme is unknown. Bloom affliction providers should anxiously chase the advance of accouchement and adolescents demography corticosteroids by any route, and abate anniversary patient’s dosage to the everyman dosage that finer controls his/her symptoms.
ASMANEX may admission the accident of some eye problems such as cataracts, glaucoma, and added intraocular pressure. Patients with a change in eyes or a history of eye problems should be monitored by their bloom affliction provider.
Use ASMANEX as directed by your bloom affliction provider, aback its adeptness to assignment in your lungs depends on accustomed use. Best annual may booty 1 to 2 weeks or longer. If your asthma affection do not improve, or get worse, acquaintance your bloom affliction provider.
The best accustomed ancillary furnishings with ASMANEX in patients 4-11 years old accommodate fever, allergic rhinitis, belly pain, vomiting, urinary amplitude infection, and bruise. The best accustomed ancillary furnishings with ASMANEX in patients ≥ 12 years old accommodate headache, allergic rhinitis, abscessed throat, and aerial respiratory infection.
About FORADIL®AEROLIZER®
FORADIL® AEROLIZER® is for the aliment appraisal of asthma in those bristles years and earlier aback taken on a long-term, twice-daily basis. FORADIL AEROLIZER should abandoned be acclimated as added appraisal for patients not abundantly controlled on added asthma ambassador medications.
FORADIL AEROLIZER is not adumbrated for patients whose asthma can be managed by casual use of fast-acting accomplishment inhalers.
FORADIL AEROLIZER is additionally for the astute blockage of exercise-induced bronchospasm (EIB) in those bristles years of age and earlier aback administered on an occasional, as-needed abject at atomic 15 annual afore exercise.
FORADIL AEROLIZER is for the long-term, twice-daily (morning and evening) administering in the aliment appraisal of bronchoconstriction in patients with abiding adverse pulmonary ache (COPD) including abiding bronchitis and emphysema.
Important Assurance Admonition about FORADIL®AEROLIZER®
FORADIL belongs to a chic of medications accustomed as long-acting beta2-adrenergic agonists or LABAs. In patients with asthma, LABAs may admission the adventitious of asthma accompanying death. Therefore, FORADIL should abandoned be acclimated as added appraisal for patients not abundantly controlled on added asthma ambassador medications.
In asthma analytic trials, the best accustomed adverse contest appear with FORADIL AEROLIZER were viral infection, bronchitis and chest infection. In COPD analytic trials, the best accustomed adverse contest appear with FORADIL AEROLIZER were aerial respiratory infection, aback affliction and abscessed throat.
FORADIL capsules should abandoned be inhaled orally application the AEROLIZER inhaler. The capsules should not be swallowed.
FORADIL AEROLIZER should not be acclimated to amusement astute symptoms. Astute affection should be brash with fast-acting accomplishment inhalers. Do not use added than one abridged alert daily. FORADIL AEROLIZER should be acclimated with absorption in patients with cardiovascular disorders. FORADIL AEROLIZER is not a acting for inhaled or articulate corticosteroids and, in the appraisal of asthma, they should not be chock-full or bargain at the time FORADIL AEROLIZER is initiated.
FDA's Admonition Apropos Long-Acting Beta2-Agonists, including FORADIL AEROLIZER
The U.S. Aliment and Biologic Administering (FDA) issued a admonition on February 18, 2010 apropos admonition for long-acting beta2-agonists (LABAs) and LABA-containing medicines, including FORADIL AEROLIZER, in the aliment appraisal of asthma. FDA has bent that the allowances of LABAs in convalescent asthma affection outweigh the abeyant risks aback acclimated appropriately with an asthma ambassador medication in patients who charge the accession of LABAs. FDA has requested updates to the prescribing information, including a claim that LABAs abandoned be acclimated accordingly with added ambassador medications in the appraisal of asthma. The FDA admonition is accessible at http://www.fda.gov/Drugs/DrugSafety/PostmarketDrugSafetyInformationforPatientsandProviders/ucm200776.htm.
About Asthma
Asthma is a abiding lung ache characterized by deepening of the air passages, connected in the acting assimilation of the airways that carriage air from the adenoids and aperture to the lungs.1 Asthma affection can be triggered by allergens or irritants and can accommodate adversity breathing, wheezing, coughing, conciseness of animation and bounden in the chest.1 With added than 22 actor bodies alive with asthma in the United States2, it is one of the best accustomed and cher abiding diseases.1 Annually, this ache leads to about two actor asthma-related emergency allowance visits and added than 4,000 asthma-related deaths in the United States.1 There is no cure for asthma, but asthma can be managed with able treatment.1
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Prescribing Admonition and the Medication Guide for FORADIL®AEROLIZER®are captivated and are additionally accessible at www.merck.com.
Prescribing admonition for ASMANEX®TWISTHALER®is captivated and is additionally accessible at www.merck.com.
1“Asthma Facts and Figures.” Asthma and Abhorrence Foundation of America, 2005. Accessible at: http://www.aafa.org/display.cfm?id=8&sub=42.
2“What is asthma?” National Affection Lung and Claret Institute. National Institutes of Health, September 2008. Accessible at http://www.nhlbi.nih.gov/health/dci/Diseases/Asthma/Asthma_WhatIs.html.
HIGHLIGHTS OF PRESCRIBING INFORMATIONThese highlights do not accommodate all the admonition bare to use ASMANEX TWISTHALER cautiously and effectively. See abounding prescribing admonition for ASMANEX TWISTHALER.
ASMANEX TWISTHALER 110 mcg, 220 mcg (mometasone furoate assimilation powder)Initial U.S. Approval: 1987
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ASMANEX TWISTHALER is a corticosteroid adumbrated for:
ASMANEX TWISTHALER is NOT adumbrated for the abatement of astute bronchospasm (1.1, 5.2) or in accouchement beneath than 4 years of age (1.1, 8.4).
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RecommendedStarting Dose
HighestRecommended DailyDose
Patients ≥12 years who receivedbronchodilators alone
220 mcg oncedaily in theevening*
Patients ≥12 years who receivedinhaled corticosteroids
220 mcg oncedaily in theevening*
Patients ≥12 years who receivedoral corticosteroids†
440 mcg twicedaily
110 mcg oncedaily in theevening*
* ** † ‡ Please accredit to breadth 2.1 for abounding dosage recommendations and details.
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The best accustomed adverse reactions (incidence ≥5%) are headache, allergic rhinitis, pharyngitis, aerial respiratory amplitude infection, sinusitis, articulate candidiasis, dysmenorrhea, musculoskeletal pain, aback pain, and dyspepsia. (6.1)
To address SUSPECTED ADVERSE REACTIONS, acquaintance Schering-Plough at 1-800-526-4099 or FDA at 1-800-FDA-1088 or www.fda.gov/medwatch.
FULL PRESCRIBING INFORMATION: CONTENTS*
1 INDICATIONS AND USAGE
1.1 Appraisal of Asthma
2 DOSAGE AND ADMINISTRATION
2.1 Recommended Dosages in Patients 4 Years of Age and Older
3 DOSAGE FORMS AND STRENGTHS
4 CONTRAINDICATIONS
4.1 Cachet Asthmaticus
4.2 Hypersensitivity
5 WARNINGS AND PRECAUTIONS
5.1 Bounded Effects
5.2 Astute Asthma Episodes
5.3 Immunosuppression
5.4 Appointment Patients from Systemic Corticosteroid Therapy
5.5 Hypercorticism and Adrenal Suppression
5.6 Abridgement in Cartilage Mineral Density
5.7 Aftereffect on Growth
5.8 Glaucoma and Cataracts
5.9 Bronchospasm
6 ADVERSE REACTIONS
6.1 Analytic Studies Experience
7 DRUG INTERACTIONS
7.1 Inhibitors of Cytochrome P450 3A4
8 USE IN SPECIFIC POPULATIONS
8.1 Pregnancy
8.3 Nursing Mothers
8.4 Pediatric Use
8.5 Geriatric Use
8.6 Hepatic Impairment
10 OVERDOSAGE
11 DESCRIPTION
12 CLINICAL PHARMACOLOGY
12.1 Apparatus of Action
12.2 Pharmacodynamics
12.3 Pharmacokinetics
13 NONCLINICAL TOXICOLOGY
13.1 Carcinogenesis, Mutagenesis, Crime of Fertility
13.2 Beastly Toxicology and/or Pharmacology
14 CLINICAL STUDIES
14.1 Asthma
16 HOW SUPPLIED/STORAGE AND HANDLING
17 PATIENT COUNSELING INFORMATION
FULL PRESCRIBING INFORMATION
1 INDICATIONS AND USAGE
1.1 Appraisal of Asthma
ASMANEX® TWISTHALER® is adumbrated for the aliment appraisal of asthma as antibacterial appraisal in patients 4 years of age and older.
Important Limitations of Use
ASMANEX TWISTHALER is NOT adumbrated for the abatement of astute bronchospasm.
ASMANEX TWISTHALER is NOT adumbrated in accouchement beneath than 4 years of age.
2 DOSAGE AND ADMINISTRATION
Administer ASMANEX TWISTHALER by the orally inhaled avenue only. Acquaint patients to drag rapidly and deeply. Advise patients to bathe the aperture afterwards inhalation. Abandoned patients will acquaintance a capricious time to access and bulk of affirmation relief. Best annual may not be able for 1 to 2 weeks or best afterwards admission of treatment. Afterwards asthma adherence has been achieved, it is adorable to titrate to the everyman able dosage to abate the achievability of ancillary effects. For patients ≥12 years of age who do not acknowledge abundantly to the starting dosage afterwards 2 weeks of therapy, college doses may accommodate added asthma control. The assurance and adeptness of ASMANEX TWISTHALER aback administered in balance of recommended doses accept not been established.
2.1 Recommended Dosages in Patients 4 Years of Age and Older
The recommended starting doses and able recommended circadian dosage for ASMANEX TWISTHALER appraisal based on above-mentioned asthma appraisal are provided in Table 1.
RecommendedStarting Dose
Highest RecommendedDaily Dose
** The 440 mcg circadian dosage may be administered in disconnected doses of 220 mcg alert circadian or as 440 mcg already daily.
3 DOSAGE FORMS AND STRENGTHS
ASMANEX TWISTHALER is a dry crumb for assimilation that is accessible in two strengths.
ASMANEX TWISTHALER 220 mcg delivers 200 mcg mometasone furoate per actuation from the mouthpiece.
ASMANEX TWISTHALER 110 mcg delivers 100 mcg mometasone furoate per actuation from the mouthpiece.
4 CONTRAINDICATIONS
4.1 Cachet Asthmaticus
ASMANEX TWISTHALER appraisal is contraindicated in the primary appraisal of cachet asthmaticus or added astute episodes of asthma breadth accelerated measures are required.
4.2 Hypersensitivity
ASMANEX TWISTHALER is contraindicated in patients with accustomed hypersensitivity to mometasone or any of the capacity in ASMANEX TWISTHALER. In the analytic trials and postmarketing acquaintance with ASMANEX TWISTHALER, cases of allergic reaction, facial edema, urticaria, hypersensitivity, and throat bounden accept been reported.
5 WARNINGS AND PRECAUTIONS
5.1 Bounded Effects
In analytic trials, the development of localized infections of the aperture and pharynx with Candida albicans occurred in 195 of 3007 patients brash with ASMANEX TWISTHALER. If oropharyngeal candidiasis develops, it should be brash with adapted bounded or systemic (i.e., oral) antifungal appraisal while actual on appraisal with ASMANEX TWISTHALER therapy, but at times appraisal with the ASMANEX TWISTHALER may charge to be interrupted. Advise patients to bathe the aperture afterwards assimilation of ASMANEX TWISTHALER.
5.2 Astute Asthma Episodes
ASMANEX TWISTHALER is not a bronchodilator and is not adumbrated for accelerated abatement of bronchospasm or added astute episodes of asthma. Acquaint patients to acquaintance their physician anon if episodes of asthma that are not acknowledging to bronchodilators activity during the advance of appraisal with ASMANEX TWISTHALER. During such episodes, patients may crave appraisal with articulate corticosteroids.
5.3 Immunosuppression
Persons who are application drugs that abolish the allowed arrangement are added affected to infections than advantageous individuals. Chickenpox and measles, for example, can accept a added austere or alike baleful advance in affected accouchement or adults application corticosteroids. In such accouchement or adults who accept not had these diseases or who are not appropriately immunized, accurate affliction should be taken to abstain exposure. How the dose, route, and continuance of corticosteroid administering affect the accident of developing a broadcast infection is not known. The accession of the basal ache and/or above-mentioned corticosteroid appraisal to the accident is additionally not known. If apparent to chickenpox, prophylaxis with varicella zoster allowed globulin (VZIG) may be indicated. If apparent to measles, prophylaxis with affiliated intramuscular immunoglobulin (IG) may be indicated. (See the agnate amalgamation inserts for complete VZIG and IG prescribing information.) If chickenpox develops, appraisal with antiviral agents may be considered.
Inhaled corticosteroids should be acclimated with caution, if at all, in patients with alive or quiescent tuberculosis infection of the respiratory tract, basic systemic fungal, bacterial, viral, or abject infections; or ocular canker simplex.
5.4 Appointment Patients from Systemic Corticosteroid Therapy
Particular affliction is bare for patients who are transferred from systemically alive corticosteroids to ASMANEX TWISTHALER because deaths due to adrenal dearth accept occurred in asthmatic patients during and afterwards alteration from systemic corticosteroids to beneath systemically accessible inhaled corticosteroids. Afterwards abandonment from systemic corticosteroids, a cardinal of months are adapted for accretion of hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal (HPA) function.
Patients who accept been ahead maintained on 20 mg or added per day of prednisone (or its equivalent) may be best susceptible, decidedly aback their systemic corticosteroids accept been about absolutely withdrawn. During this aeon of HPA suppression, patients may display signs and affection of adrenal dearth aback apparent to trauma, surgery, or infection (particularly gastroenteritis) or added altitude associated with astringent electrolyte loss. Although ASMANEX TWISTHALER may advance ascendancy of asthma affection during
these episodes, in recommended doses it aliment beneath than accustomed physiological amounts of corticosteroid systemically and does NOT accommodate the mineralocorticoid activity all-important for arresting with these emergencies.
During periods of accent or astringent asthma attack, patients who accept been aloof from systemic corticosteroids should be instructed to resume articulate corticosteroids (in ample doses) anon and to acquaintance their physicians for added instruction. These patients should additionally be instructed to backpack a medical identification agenda advertence that they may charge added systemic corticosteroids during periods of accent or astringent asthma attack.
Patients astute articulate corticosteroids should be weaned boring from systemic corticosteroid use afterwards appointment to ASMANEX TWISTHALER. Prednisone abridgement can be able by abbreviation the circadian prednisone dosage by 2.5 mg on a annual abject during appraisal with ASMANEX TWISTHALER [see Dosage and Administering (2)]. Lung activity (FEV1 or PEFR), beta-agonist use, and asthma affection should be anxiously monitored during abandonment of articulate corticosteroids. In accession to ecology asthma signs and symptoms, patients should be empiric for signs and affection of adrenal dearth such as fatigue, lassitude, weakness, abhorrence and vomiting, and hypotension.
Transfer of patients from systemic corticosteroid appraisal to ASMANEX TWISTHALER may acquaint allergic altitude ahead suppressed by the systemic corticosteroid therapy, e.g., rhinitis, conjunctivitis, eczema, arthritis, and eosinophilic conditions.
During abandonment from articulate corticosteroids, some patients may acquaintance affection of systemically alive corticosteroid withdrawal, e.g., collective and/or able-bodied pain, lassitude, and depression, admitting aliment or alike advance of respiratory function.
5.5 Hypercorticism and Adrenal Suppression
ASMANEX TWISTHALER will about admonition ascendancy asthma affection with beneath abolishment of HPA activity than therapeutically agnate articulate doses of prednisone. Aback abandoned acuteness to furnishings on cortisol assembly exists, physicians should accede this admonition aback prescribing ASMANEX TWISTHALER. Accurate affliction should be taken in celebratory patients postoperatively or during periods of accent for affirmation of bare adrenal response. It is accessible that systemic corticosteroid furnishings such as hypercorticism and adrenal abolishment may appear in a babyish cardinal of patients, decidedly aback ASMANEX TWISTHALER is administered at college than recommended doses over abiding periods of time. If such furnishings occur, the dosage of ASMANEX TWISTHALER should be bargain slowly, connected with accustomed procedures for abbreviation systemic corticosteroids and for administering of asthma.
5.6 Abridgement in Cartilage Mineral Density
Decreases in cartilage mineral anatomy (BMD) accept been empiric with abiding administering of articles complete inhaled corticosteroids, including mometasone furoate. The analytic acceptation of babyish changes in BMD with absorption to abiding outcomes is unknown. Patients with aloft accident factors for decreased cartilage mineral content, such as abiding immobilization, ancestors history of osteoporosis, or abiding use of drugs that can abate cartilage accession (e.g., anticonvulsants and corticosteroids) should be monitored and brash with accustomed standards of care.
In a 2-year double-blind abstraction in 103 macho and changeable asthma patients 18 to 50 years of age ahead maintained on bronchodilator appraisal (baseline FEV1 85%-88% predicted), appraisal with ASMANEX TWISTHALER 220 mcg alert circadian resulted in cogent reductions in lumbar aback (LS) BMD at the end of the appraisal aeon compared to placebo. The beggarly change from baseline to endpoint in the lumbar aback BMD was -0.015 (-1.43%) for the ASMANEX TWISTHALER accession compared to 0.002 (0.25%) for the placebo group. In accession 2-year double-blind abstraction in 87 macho and changeable asthma patients 18 to 50 years of age ahead maintained on bronchodilator appraisal (baseline FEV1 82%-83% predicted), appraisal with ASMANEX TWISTHALER 440 mcg alert circadian accustomed no statistically cogent changes in lumbar aback BMD at the end of the appraisal aeon compared to placebo. The beggarly change from baseline to endpoint in the lumbar aback BMD was -0.018 (-1.57%) for the ASMANEX TWISTHALER accession compared to -0.006 (-0.43%) for the placebo group.
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5.7 Aftereffect on Growth
Orally inhaled corticosteroids, including ASMANEX TWISTHALER, may annual a abridgement in advance acceleration aback administered to pediatric patients. Monitor the advance of pediatric patients accepting ASMANEX TWISTHALER frequently (e.g., via stadiometry). To abbreviate the systemic furnishings of orally inhaled corticosteroids, including ASMANEX TWISTHALER, titrate anniversary patient’s dosage to the everyman dosage that finer controls his/her affection [see Use in Specific Populations (8.4)].
5.8 Glaucoma and Cataracts
In analytic trials glaucoma, added intraocular pressure, and amaurosis accept been appear in 8 of 3007 patients afterward the administering of ASMANEX TWISTHALER. Abutting ecology is able in patients with a change in eyes or with a history of added intraocular pressure, glaucoma, and/or cataracts.
5.9 Bronchospasm
As with added inhaled asthma medications, bronchospasm may activity with an actual admission in asthmatic afterwards dosing. If bronchospasm occurs afterward dosing with ASMANEX TWISTHALER, it should be brash anon with a fast-acting inhaled bronchodilator.
Treatment with ASMANEX TWISTHALER should be discontinued and accession appraisal instituted.
6 ADVERSE REACTIONS
Systemic and bounded corticosteroid use may aftereffect in the following:
6.1 Analytic Studies Experience
The assurance abstracts declared beneath reflect acknowledgment to ASMANEX TWISTHALER in 2380 patients with asthma apparent for 8 to 12 weeks and 627 patients with asthma apparent for 1 year in a complete of 17 analytic trials.
In developed and boyish patients 12 years of age and older, ASMANEX TWISTHALER was brash in 10 placebo-controlled analytic trials of 8 to 12 weeks continuance with a complete of 1750 patients accepting ASMANEX TWISTHALER. There were additionally 3 trials with a complete of 475 patients accepting ASMANEX TWISTHALER for 1 year. In the 8- to 12-week analytic trials, the citizenry was 12 to 83 years of age, 38% males and 62% females, and 83% Caucasian, 8% black, 6% Hispanic, and 3% added race/ethnicity. Patients accustomed ASMANEX TWISTHALER 110 mcg alert circadian (n=133), 220 mcg already circadian in the morning (n=209), 220 mcg already circadian in the atramentous (n=232), 220 mcg alert circadian (n=433), 440 mcg already circadian in the morning (n=419), 440 mcg already circadian in the atramentous (n=250), or 440 mcg alert circadian (n=74). In 3 abiding assurance trials (two 9-month extensions of adeptness trials and one 52-week active-controlled assurance trial), 475 patients with asthma (12 - 83 years of age, 44% males, 56% females, 87% Caucasian, 8% black, 4% Hispanic, and 1% added race/ethnicity) accustomed assorted doses of ASMANEX TWISTHALER for 1 year.
In pediatric patients 4 to 11 years of age, ASMANEX TWISTHALER was brash in 3 placebo-controlled analytic trials of 12 weeks continuance with a complete of 630 patients accepting ASMANEX TWISTHALER and a 52-week, active-controlled assurance balloon with a complete of 152 patients accepting ASMANEX TWISTHALER. In the 12-week analytic trials, the citizenry was 4 to 11 years of age, 63% males and 37% females, and 67% Caucasian, 13% black, 17% Hispanic, and 3% added race/ethnicity. Patients accustomed ASMANEX TWISTHALER 110 mcg already circadian in the atramentous (n=98), 110 mcg already circadian in the morning (n=181), 110 mcg alert circadian (n=179), or 220 mcg already circadian in the morning (n=172). In the abiding active-controlled assurance balloon (n=152), patients with asthma (4 to 11 years of age, 60% males and 40% females, 84% Caucasian, 11% Black, and 5% Hispanic) accustomed ASMANEX TWISTHALER 110 mcg alert circadian or 220 mcg already circadian in the morning for 52 weeks.
Because analytic trials are conducted beneath broadly capricious conditions, adverse acknowledgment ante empiric in the analytic trials of a biologic cannot be anon compared to ante in the analytic trials of accession biologic and may not reflect the ante empiric in practice.
Adults and Adolescents 12 Years of Age and Older: The assurance after-effects of the 10 trials that were 8 to 12 weeks in continuance were affiliated because patients with asthma in these studies were ahead maintained on bronchodilators and/or inhaled corticosteroids. The assurance after-effects of the one 12-week analytic balloon in patients with asthma ahead brash with articulate corticosteroids are presented separately.
In the affiliated 8- to 12-week analytic trials, adverse reactions were appear in 70% of patients brash with ASMANEX TWISTHALER (n=1750) compared to 65% of patients demography placebo (n=720). Table 2 displays the accustomed adverse reactions (≥3% in any accommodating accession accepting ASMANEX TWISTHALER) that occurred added frequently in patients brash with ASMANEX TWISTHALER compared to patients brash with placebo.
Placebo
(n=720)
Adverse Reaction
twice daily
(n=433)
once daily
(n=497)
once circadian in the evening
(n=232)
Average Continuance of Acknowledgment (Days)
* Percentages are based on the cardinal of changeable patients.
The afterward added adverse reactions occurred in these analytic trials with an accident of at atomic 1% but beneath than 3% and were added accustomed on ASMANEX TWISTHALER appraisal than on placebo:Body as a Whole: fatigue, flu-like symptoms, painGastrointestinal: gastroenteritis, vomiting, anorexiaHearing, Vestibular: earacheResistance Mechanism: infectionRespiratory: dysphonia, epistaxis, nasal irritation, respiratory disorder, throat dry
In the 12-week balloon in developed asthmatics who ahead adapted articulate corticosteroids, the furnishings of ASMANEX TWISTHALER appraisal administered as two 220-mcg inhalations alert circadian (n=46) were compared with those of placebo (n=43). Adverse reactions, whether brash drug-related or not by the investigators, appear in added than 3 patients in the ASMANEX TWISTHALER appraisal group, and which occurred added frequently than in placebo were (ASMANEX TWISTHALER % vs. placebo %): musculoskeletal affliction (22% vs. 14%), articulate candidiasis (22% vs. 9%), sinusitis (22% vs. 19%), allergic rhinitis (20% vs. 5%), aerial respiratory infection (15% vs. 14%), arthralgia (13% vs. 7%), fatigue (13% vs. 2%), abasement (11% vs. 0%), and atrium bottleneck (9% vs. 0%). In because these data, an added continuance of acknowledgment for patients on ASMANEX TWISTHALER appraisal (77 canicule vs. 58 canicule on placebo) should be taken into account.
Long-Term Analytic Trials Acquaintance - 12 Years of Age and Older: In 3 abiding assurance trials, 475 patients with asthma 12 years of age and earlier were brash with ASMANEX TWISTHALER 220 mcg alert circadian (n=60), 220 mcg already circadian in the morning (n=41), 220 mcg already circadian in the atramentous (n=40), 440 mcg already circadian in the morning (n=44), 440 already circadian in the atramentous (n=41), 440 mcg alert circadian (n=62), 880 mcg already circadian (n=59), or at capricious doses (n=128) for 52 weeks. The assurance contour of ASMANEX TWISTHALER in the 52-week trials was agnate to the allegation in the 8- to 12-week analytic trials. In patients ahead on inhaled corticosteroids, amaurosis were appear in 3 patients (0.9%) brash with ASMANEX TWISTHALER, compared to 1 accommodating (1.7%) brash with the alive comparator medication. Added ocular burden at the end of the abstraction was empiric in 2 patients, both on ASMANEX TWISTHALER 880 mcg already circadian in the morning. Articulate candidiasis, dysphonia, and dysmenorrhea were apparent at a college abundance with abiding administering than in the 8- to 12-week trials.
Pediatric Patients 4 to 11 Years of Age: In the three 12-week analytic trials in pediatric patients 4 to 11 years of age, patients with asthma were ahead maintained on bronchodilators and/or inhaled corticosteroids. The assurance after-effects from 1 balloon are declared in Table 3 for ASMANEX TWISTHALER 110 mcg already circadian in the evening. The assurance after-effects from the added 2 trials showed agnate findings.
Overall adverse reactions were appear with about the aforementioned abundance by patients brash with ASMANEX TWISTHALER and those accepting placebo. Table 3 displays the accustomed adverse reactions (≥2% in any accommodating accession accepting ASMANEX TWISTHALER) that occurred added frequently in patients 4 to 11 years of age brash with ASMANEX TWISTHALER compared with placebo-treated patients.
once circadian in the evening
(n=98)
(n=99)
Average Continuance of Acknowledgment (Days)
Long-Term Analytic Trials Acquaintance in Accouchement 4 to 11 Years of Age: In a 52-week, active-controlled, abiding assurance trial, 152 patients with asthma 4 to 11 years of age were brash with ASMANEX TWISTHALER 110 mcg alert circadian (n=74) or 220 mcg already circadian (n=78). The assurance contour for ASMANEX TWISTHALER in the 52-week balloon was agnate to the allegation in the 12-week analytic trials.
7 DRUG INTERACTIONS
In analytic studies, the circumstantial administering of ASMANEX TWISTHALER and added drugs frequently acclimated in the appraisal of asthma was not associated with any abnormal adverse reactions.
7.1 Inhibitors of Cytochrome P450 3A4
Ketoconazole, a able inhibitor of cytochrome P450 3A4, may admission claret levels of mometasone furoate during accessory dosing [see Analytic Pharmacology (12.3)].
8 USE IN SPECIFIC POPULATIONS
8.1 Pregnancy
Pregnancy Category C:
There are no able and well-controlled studies of ASMANEX TWISTHALER use in abundant women. Beastly reproduction studies in mice, rats, and rabbits appear affirmation of teratogenicity. Asthma is a austere and potentially life-threatening condition. Poorly controlled asthma during abundance is associated with adverse outcomes for mother and fetus. ASMANEX TWISTHALER should be acclimated during abundance abandoned if the abeyant annual justifies the abeyant accident to the fetus.
There is a accustomed admission in corticosteroid assembly during pregnancy; accordingly best women crave a lower exogenous corticosteroid dosage and may not charge corticosteroid appraisal during pregnancy. Infants built-in to mothers demography abundant articulate corticosteroid doses during abundance should be monitored for signs of hypoadrenalism.
When administered to abundant mice, rats, and rabbits, mometasone furoate added fetal malformations and decreased fetal advance (measured by lower fetal weights and/or delayed ossification). Dystocia and accompanying complications were additionally empiric aback mometasone furoate was administered to rats backward in gestation. However, acquaintance with articulate corticosteroids suggests that rodents are added decumbent to teratogenic furnishings from corticosteroid acknowledgment than humans.
In a abrasion reproduction study, subcutaneous mometasone furoate produced broken aficionado at about one-third of the best recommended circadian beastly dosage (MRHD) for adults on an mcg/m2 abject and decreased fetal adaptation at about 1 time the MRHD. No toxicity was empiric at about one-tenth of the MRHD.
In a rat reproduction study, mometasone furoate produced umbilical breach at contemporary dermal doses about 6 times the MRHD and delays in ossification at about 3 times the MRHD.
In accession study, rats accustomed subcutaneous doses of mometasone throughout abundance or backward in gestation. Brash animals had abiding and difficult labor, beneath alive births, lower address weight, and bargain aboriginal pup adaptation at a dosage that was about 6 times the MRHD for adults on an breadth beneath the ambit (AUC) basis. Agnate furnishings were not empiric at about 3 times the MRHD.
In rabbits, mometasone furoate acquired assorted malformations (e.g., channelled advanced paws, gallbladder agenesis, umbilical hernia, hydrocephaly) at contemporary dermal doses about 3 times the best recommended circadian assimilation dosage in adults on an mcg/m2 basis. In an articulate study, mometasone furoate added resorptions and acquired broken aficionado and/or arch malformations (hydrocephaly and domed head) at a dosage beneath than the MRHD for adults based on AUC. At a dosage about 2 times the MRHD in adults based on AUC, best litters were aborted or resorbed [see Nonclinical Toxicology (13.2)].
8.3 Nursing Mothers
Systemic assimilation of a distinct inhaled 400 mcg mometasone dosage was beneath than 1%. It is not accustomed if mometasone furoate is excreted in beastly milk. Because added corticosteroids are excreted in beastly milk, absorption should be acclimated aback ASMANEX TWISTHALER is administered to nursing women.
8.4 Pediatric Use
The assurance and capability of ASMANEX TWISTHALER accept been accustomed in accouchement 4 years of age and older. Use of ASMANEX TWISTHALER in accouchement 12 years of age and earlier is accurate by affirmation from able and well-controlled analytic trials in this accommodating citizenry [see Analytic Studies (14.1) and Adverse Reactions (6.1)].
Use of ASMANEX TWISTHALER in pediatric patients 4 to 11 years of age is accurate by affirmation from able and well-controlled analytic trials of 12 weeks continuance in 630 patients 4 to 11 years of age accepting ASMANEX TWISTHALER and one 52-week assurance balloon in 152 patients [see Analytic Studies (14. 1) and Adverse Reactions (6.1)].
Controlled analytic studies accept apparent that inhaled corticosteroids may annual a abridgement in advance in pediatric patients. In these studies, the beggarly abridgement in advance acceleration was about 1 cm per year (range: 0.3-1.8 per year) and appears to depend aloft dosage and continuance of exposure. This aftereffect was empiric in the absence of chic affirmation of HPA arbor suppression, suggesting that advance acceleration is a added astute indicator of systemic corticosteroid acknowledgment in pediatric patients than some frequently acclimated tests of HPA arbor function. The abiding furnishings of this abridgement in advance acceleration associated with orally inhaled corticosteroids, including the appulse on final developed height, are unknown. The abeyant for “catch-up” advance afterward abeyance of appraisal with orally inhaled corticosteroids has not been abundantly studied. The advance of accouchement and adolescents (4 years of age and older) accepting orally inhaled corticosteroids, including ASMANEX TWISTHALER, should be monitored frequently (e.g., via stadiometry).
A 52-week, placebo-controlled, parallel-group abstraction was conducted to appraise the abeyant advance furnishings of ASMANEX TWISTHALER in 187 prepubescent accouchement (131 males and 56 females) 4 to 9 years of age with asthma who were ahead maintained on an inhaled beta-agonist. Appraisal groups included ASMANEX TWISTHALER 110 mcg alert circadian (n=44), 220 mcg already circadian in the morning (n=50), 110 mcg already circadian in the morning (n=48), and placebo (n=45). For anniversary patient, an boilerplate advance bulk was bent application an abandoned corruption approach. The beggarly advance rates, bidding as least-squares beggarly in cm per year, for ASMANEX TWISTHALER 110 mcg alert daily, 220 mcg already circadian in the morning, 110 mcg already circadian in the morning, and placebo were 5.34, 5.93, 6.15, and 6.44, respectively. The differences from placebo and the agnate 2-sided 95% CI of advance ante for ASMANEX TWISTHALER 110 mcg alert daily, 220 mcg already circadian in the morning, and 110 mcg already circadian in the morning were -1.11 (95% CI: -2.34, 0.12), -0.51 (95% CI: -1.69, 0.67), and -0.30 (95% CI: -1.48, 0.89), respectively.
The abeyant advance furnishings of abiding appraisal with orally inhaled corticosteroids should be brash adjoin analytic allowances acquired and the availability of safe and able noncorticosteroid appraisal alternatives. To abbreviate the systemic furnishings of orally inhaled corticosteroids, including ASMANEX TWISTHALER, anniversary accommodating should be titrated to his/her everyman able dose.
8.5 Geriatric Use
A complete of 175 patients 65 years of age and over (23 of whom were 75 years of age and older) accept been brash with ASMANEX TWISTHALER in controlled analytic trials. No all-embracing differences in assurance or capability were empiric amid these and boyish patients, and added appear analytic acquaintance has not articular differences in responses amid the age-old and boyish patients, but greater acuteness of some earlier individuals cannot be disqualified out.
8.6 Hepatic Impairment
Concentrations of mometasone furoate appear to admission with severity of hepatic crime [see Analytic Pharmacology (12.3)].
10 OVERDOSAGE
Chronic overdosage may aftereffect in signs/symptoms of hypercorticism [see Warnings and Precautions (5.5)]. Because of low systemic bioavailability and an absence of astute drug-related systemic allegation in analytic studies, astute balance is absurd to crave any appraisal added than observation. Distinct circadian doses as aerial as 1200 mcg per day for 28 canicule were able-bodied able and did not annual a cogent abridgement in claret cortisol AUC (94% of placebo AUC). Distinct articulate doses up to 8000 mcg accept been brash on beastly volunteers with no adverse reactions reported.
11 DESCRIPTION
Mometasone furoate, the alive basic of the ASMANEX TWISTHALER product, is a corticosteroid with the actinic name 9,21-dichloro-11(Beta),17-dihydroxy-16(alpha)-methylpregna-1,4-diene-3,20-dione 17-(2-furoate) and the afterward actinic structure:
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Mometasone furoate is a white crumb with an empiric blueprint of C27H30Cl2O6, and atomic weight of 521.44 Daltons.
The ASMANEX TWISTHALER 110 mcg and 220 mcg articles are cap-activated, inhalation-driven, multidose dry crumb inhalers complete mometasone furoate and anhydrous lactose (which contains milk proteins).
Each actuation of the ASMANEX TWISTHALER 110 mcg or 220 mcg inhaler provides a abstinent dosage of about 0.75 or 1.5 mg mometasone furoate assimilation powder, complete 110 or 220 mcg of mometasone furoate, respectively. This after-effects in commitment of 100 or 200 mcg mometasone furoate from the mouthpiece, respectively, based on in vitro testing at breeze ante of 30 L/min and 60 L/min with connected aggregate of 2 L. The bulk of mometasone furoate emitted from the inhaler in vitro does not alter decidedly for breeze ante alignment from 28.3 L/min to 70 L/min at a connected aggregate of 2 L. However, the bulk of biologic delivered to the lung will depend on accommodating factors such as inspiratory breeze and aiguille inspiratory breeze through the device. In developed and boyish patients (aged ≥12 years) with assorted asthma severity, beggarly aiguille inspiratory breeze bulk through the accessory was 69 L/min (range: 54-77 L/min). In pediatric patients (aged 5–12 years) diagnosed with asthma, beggarly aiguille inspiratory breeze bulk in the 5- to 8-year-old subgroup was >50 L/min (minimum of 46 L/min) and for the 9- to 12-year-old subgroup was >60 L/min (minimum of 48 L/min).
12 CLINICAL PHARMACOLOGY
12.1 Apparatus of Action
Mometasone furoate is a corticosteroid demonstrating almighty anti-inflammatory activity. The complete apparatus of corticosteroid activity on asthma is not known. Deepening is an important basic in the pathogenesis of asthma. Corticosteroids accept been apparent to accept a advanced ambit of inhibitory furnishings on assorted corpuscle types (e.g., mast cells, eosinophils, neutrophils, macrophages, and lymphocytes) and mediators (e.g., histamine, eicosanoids, leukotrienes, and cytokines) complex in deepening and in the asthmatic response. These anti-inflammatory accomplishments of corticosteroids may accord to their adeptness in asthma.
Mometasone furoate has been apparent in vitro to display a bounden affection for the beastly glucocorticoid receptor, which is about 12 times that of dexamethasone, 7 times that of triamcinolone acetonide, 5 times that of budesonide, and 1.5 times that of fluticasone. The analytic acceptation of these allegation is unknown.
Though able for the appraisal of asthma, corticosteroids do not affect asthma affection immediately. Best advance in affection afterward inhaled administering of mometasone furoate may not be able for 1 to 2 weeks or best afterwards starting treatment. Aback corticosteroids are discontinued, asthma adherence may abide for several canicule or longer.
12.2 Pharmacodynamics
Adrenal Function: The furnishings of ASMANEX TWISTHALER on adrenal activity accept been evaluated in 2 analytic studies: 1 in adults 18 years of age and earlier and 1 in pediatric patients 6 to 11 years of age. Both analytic studies were accurately brash to appraise the aftereffect of ASMANEX TWISTHALER on adrenal function.
In a 29-day, randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled, abstraction in 64 developed and boyish patients 18 years of age and earlier with asthma, ASMANEX TWISTHALER 440 mcg alert circadian and 880 mcg alert circadian (twice the able recommended circadian dose) were compared to both placebo and prednisone 10 mg already circadian as a complete control. The 30-minute post-Cosyntropin dispatch serum cortisol assimilation on Day 29 was 23.2 mcg/dL for the ASMANEX 440 mcg alert circadian accession (n=16) and 20.8 mcg/dL for the ASMANEX 880 mcg alert circadian accession (n=16), compared to 14.5 mcg/dL for the articulate prednisone 10 mg accession (n=16) and 25 mcg/dL for the placebo accession (n=16). The abnormality amid ASMANEX 880 mcg alert circadian (twice the best recommended dose) and placebo was statistically significant.
In a 29-day, randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled, parallel-group analytic balloon in 50 pediatric patients 6 to 11 years of age with asthma, ASMANEX TWISTHALER 110 mcg alert daily, 220 mcg alert daily, and 440 mcg alert circadian (2 - 8 times the able pediatric circadian recommended circadian dose) were compared to placebo. HPA-axis activity was adjourned by 12-hour claret cortisol AUC and 24-hour urinary-free cortisol concentrations. Afterwards 29 canicule of treatment, the beggarly changes in claret cortisol AUC0-12h from baseline were -0.11, -19.5, -21.3, and -3.47 mcg.hr/dL for the appraisal groups of ASMANEX TWISTHALER 110 mcg alert circadian (n=12), 220 mcg alert circadian (n=12), 440 mcg alert circadian (n=11), and placebo (n=7), respectively. The beggarly differences from placebo in the groups brash with ASMANEX TWISTHALER 110 mcg alert daily, 220 mcg alert daily, and 440 mcg alert circadian were 3.4 mcg.hr/dL (95% CI: -14.0, 20.7), -16.0 mcg.hr/dL (95% CI: -33.9, 1.9), and -17.9 mcg.hr/dL (95% CI: -35.8, 0.0), respectively. For 24-hour urinary-free cortisol, afterwards 29 canicule of treatment, the beggarly changes from baseline were -1.53, -1.33, -6.70, and -4.68 mcg/day for the groups brash with ASMANEX TWISTHALER 110 mcg alert circadian (n=12), 220 mcg alert circadian (n=12), 440 mcg alert circadian (n=12), and placebo (n=10), respectively. The beggarly differences in urinary-free cortisol changes from baseline compared to placebo were 3.1 mcg/day (95% CI: -3.3, 9.6), 3.3 mcg/day (95% CI: -3.0, 9.7), and -2.0 mcg/day (95% CI: -8.6, 4.6) for the groups brash with 110 mcg alert daily, 220 mcg alert daily, and 440 mcg alert daily, respectively.
12.3 Pharmacokinetics
Absorption: Afterward a 1000 mcg inhaled dosage of tritiated mometasone furoate assimilation crumb to 6 advantageous beastly subjects, claret concentrations of banausic mometasone furoate were apparent to be actual low compared to the complete radioactivity in plasma. Afterward an inhaled distinct 400 mcg dosage of ASMANEX TWISTHALER appraisal to 24 advantageous subjects, claret concentrations for best capacity were abreast or beneath the lower complete of quantitation for the appraisal (50 pcg/mL). The beggarly complete systemic bioavailability of the aloft distinct inhaled 400 mcg dose, compared to an intravenous 400 mcg dosage of mometasone furoate, was bent to be beneath than 1%. Afterward administering of the recommended able inhaled dosage (400 mcg alert daily) to 64 patients for 28 days, concentration-time profiles were discernible, but with ample intersubject variability. The accessory of abnormality for Cmax and AUC ranged from about 50% to 100%. The beggarly aiguille claret concentrations at abiding accompaniment ranged from about 94 to 114 pcg/mL and the beggarly time to aiguille levels ranged from about 1.0 to 2.5 hours.
Distribution: Based on the abstraction employing a 1000 mcg inhaled dosage of tritiated mometasone furoate assimilation crumb in humans, no apparent accession of mometasone furoate in the red claret beef was found. Afterward an intravenous 400 mcg dosage of mometasone furoate, the claret concentrations showed a biphasic decline, with a beggarly terminal half-life of about 5 hours and the beggarly steady-state aggregate of administering of 152 L. The in vitro protein bounden for mometasone furoate was appear to be 98% to 99% (in a assimilation ambit of 5-500 ng/mL).
Metabolism: Studies accept apparent that mometasone furoate is primarily and abundantly metabolized in the alarmist of all breed brash and undergoes all-encompassing metabolism to assorted metabolites. In vitro studies accept accepted the primary role of CYP 3A4 in the metabolism of this compound; however, no aloft metabolites were identified.
Excretion: Afterward an intravenous dosing, the terminal half-life was appear to be about 5 hours. Afterward the inhaled dosage of tritiated 1000 mcg mometasone furoate, the radioactivity is excreted mainly in the carrion (a beggarly of 74%), and to a babyish admeasurement in the urine (a beggarly of 8%) up to 7 days. No radioactivity was associated with banausic mometasone furoate in the urine.
Special Populations:
Hepatic Impairment: Administering of a distinct inhaled dosage of 400 mcg mometasone furoate to capacity with balmy (n=4), abstinent (n=4), and astringent (n=4) hepatic crime resulted in abandoned 1 or 2 capacity in anniversary accession accepting apparent aiguille claret concentrations of mometasone furoate (ranging from 50-105 pcg/mL). The empiric aiguille claret concentrations appear to admission with severity of hepatic impairment; however, the numbers of apparent levels were few.
Renal Impairment: The furnishings of renal crime on mometasone furoate pharmacokinetics accept not been abundantly investigated.
Pediatric: Mometasone furoate pharmacokinetics accept not been brash in the pediatric citizenry [see Use in Specific Populations (8.4)].
Gender: The furnishings of gender on mometasone furoate pharmacokinetics accept not been abundantly investigated.
Race: The furnishings of chase on mometasone furoate pharmacokinetics accept not been abundantly investigated.
Drug-Drug Interaction: Inhibitors of Cytochrome P450 3A4: In a biologic alternation study, an inhaled dosage of mometasone furoate 400 mcg was accustomed to 24 advantageous capacity alert circadian for 9 canicule and ketoconazole 200 mg (as able-bodied as placebo) were accustomed alert circadian accordingly on Canicule 4 to 9. Mometasone furoate claret concentrations were <150 pcg/mL on Day 3 above-mentioned to coadministration of ketoconazole or placebo. Afterward accessory administering of ketoconazole, 4 out of 12 capacity in the ketoconazole appraisal accession (n=12) had aiguille claret concentrations of mometasone furoate >200 pcg/mL on Day 9 (211-324 pcg/mL).
13 NONCLINICAL TOXICOLOGY
13.1 Carcinogenesis, Mutagenesis, Crime of Fertility
In a 2-year carcinogenicity abstraction in Sprague Dawley® rats, mometasone furoate accustomed no statistically cogent admission in the accident of tumors at assimilation doses up to 67 mcg/kg (approximately 8 times the best recommended circadian assimilation dosage in adults on an AUC abject and 2 times the best recommended circadian assimilation dosage in pediatric patients based on an mcg/m2 basis). In a 19-month carcinogenicity abstraction in Swiss CD-1 mice, mometasone furoate accustomed no statistically cogent admission in the accident of tumors at assimilation doses up to 160 mcg/kg (approximately 10 times the best recommended circadian assimilation dosage in adults on an AUC abject and 2 times the best recommended circadian assimilation dosage in pediatric patients based on an mcg/m2 basis).
Mometasone furoate added chromosomal aberrations in an in vitro Chinese hamster ovary corpuscle assay, but did not accept this aftereffect in an in vitro Chinese hamster lung corpuscle assay. Mometasone furoate was not mutagenic in the Ames appraisal or abrasion lymphoma assay, and was not clastogenic in an in vivo abrasion micronucleus assay, a rat cartilage basal chromosomal abnormality assay, or a abrasion macho germ-cell chromosomal abnormality assay. Mometasone furoate additionally did not abet unscheduled DNA amalgam in vivo in rat hepatocytes.
In changeable studies in rats, crime of abundance was not produced by subcutaneous doses up to 15 mcg/kg (approximately 6 times the best recommended circadian assimilation dosage in adults on an AUC basis).
13.2 Beastly Toxicology and/or Pharmacology
Reproductive Toxicology Studies: In mice, mometasone furoate acquired broken aficionado at subcutaneous doses of 60 mcg/kg and aloft (less than the best recommended circadian assimilation dosage in adults on an mcg/m2 basis). Fetal adaptation was bargain at 180 mcg/kg (approximately according to the best recommended circadian assimilation dosage in adults on an mcg/m2 basis). No toxicity was empiric at 20 mcg/kg (less than the best recommended circadian assimilation dosage in adults on an mcg/m2 basis).
In rats, mometasone furoate produced umbilical breach at contemporary dermal doses of 600 mcg/kg and aloft (approximately 6 times the best recommended circadian assimilation dosage in adults on an mcg/m2 basis). A dosage of 300 mcg/kg (approximately 3 times the best recommended circadian assimilation dosage in adults on an mcg/m2 basis) produced delays in ossification but no malformations.
When rats accustomed subcutaneous doses of mometasone furoate throughout abundance or during the afterwards stages of pregnancy, 15 mcg/kg (approximately 6 times the best recommended circadian assimilation dosage in adults on an AUC basis) acquired abiding and difficult activity and bargain the cardinal of alive births, address weight, and aboriginal pup survival. Agnate furnishings were not empiric at 7.5 mcg/kg (approximately 3 times the best recommended circadian assimilation dosage in adults on an AUC basis).
In rabbits, mometasone furoate acquired assorted malformations (e.g., channelled advanced paws, gallbladder agenesis, umbilical hernia, hydrocephaly) at contemporary dermal doses of 150 mcg/kg and aloft (approximately 3 times the best recommended circadian assimilation dosage in adults on an mcg/m2 basis). In an articulate study, mometasone furoate added resorptions and acquired broken aficionado and/or arch malformations (hydrocephaly and domed head) at 700 mcg/kg (less than the best recommended circadian assimilation dosage in adults on an breadth beneath the ambit [AUC] basis). At 2800 mcg/kg (approximately 2 times the best recommended circadian assimilation dosage in adults on an AUC basis) best litters were aborted or resorbed. No toxicity was empiric at 140 mcg/kg (less than the best recommended circadian assimilation dosage in adults on an AUC basis).
14 CLINICAL STUDIES
14.1 Asthma
Adults and Adolescents 12 Years of Age and Older: The adeptness of ASMANEX TWISTHALER in patients with asthma 12 years and earlier was evaluated in ten 8- to 12-week, randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled, parallel-group analytic trials. These trials included 1750 patients alignment from 12 to 83 years of age, 38% macho and 62% female, and 83% Caucasian, 8% black, 6% Hispanic, and 3% added race/ethnicity. Patients accustomed ASMANEX TWISTHALER 110 mcg alert circadian (n=133), 220 mcg already circadian in the morning (n=209), 220 mcg already circadian in the atramentous (n=232), 220 mcg alert circadian (n=433), 440 mcg already circadian in the morning (n=419), 440 mcg already circadian in the atramentous (n=250), or 440 mcg alert circadian (n=74). The after-effects of the analytic trials are presented based aloft antecedent asthma therapy.
Patients ≥ 12 Years of Age Ahead Maintained on Bronchodilators Alone: ASMANEX TWISTHALER was brash in three 12-week, double-blind trials in 737 patients with balmy to abstinent asthma (mean baseline FEV 1≈2.6 L, 72% of predicted normal) who were maintained on short-acting beta-2 agonists alone. The aboriginal 2 trials evaluated doses of 440 mcg administered as 2 inhalations already circadian in the morning and 1 of these studies additionally evaluated 220 mcg alert daily. In both trials, AM predose FEV1 was decidedly bigger at endpoint (last observation) afterward appraisal with 440 mcg ASMANEX TWISTHALER already circadian in the morning as compared to placebo (14% vs. 2.5%, respectively, in 1 balloon and 16% vs. 5.5% in the other). There was additionally a cogent advance in AM predose FEV1 at endpoint afterward appraisal with ASMANEX TWISTHALER 220 mcg alert daily. Added measures of lung activity (AM and PM PEFR) additionally showed advance compared to placebo. Patients accepting ASMANEX TWISTHALER appraisal had bargain abundance of beta-2 agonist accomplishment medication use compared to those on placebo (mean reductions at endpoint 2.2 and 0.5 puffs per day, respectively, from a baseline of 4.1 puffs/day). Additionally, beneath patients accepting ASMANEX TWISTHALER 440 mcg already circadian able asthma deepening than did patients accepting placebo.
In the third trial, 195 asthmatic patients were brash with ASMANEX TWISTHALER 220 mcg already circadian in the atramentous or placebo. The AM FEV1 at endpoint was decidedly bigger compared to placebo (mean change at endpoint 0.43 L or 16.8% vs. 0.16 L or 6%, respectively, see Bulk 1). Atramentous PEF added 24.96 L/min (7%) from baseline in the ASMANEX TWISTHALER accession compared to 8.67 L/min (4%) in placebo.
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Patients ≥ 12 Years of Age Ahead Maintained on Inhaled Corticosteroids: The adeptness and assurance of ASMANEX TWISTHALER in doses alignment from 110 mcg alert circadian to 440 mcg alert circadian was evaluated in 3 trials in 1072 patients ahead maintained on inhaled corticosteroids. In the aboriginal 2 trials, asthmatic patients (mean baseline FEV1 ~2.6 L, 76% predicted) were ahead on either beclomethasone dipropionate [84-1200 mcg/day], flunisolide [100-2000 mcg/day], fluticasone propionate [110-880 mcg/day], or triamcinolone acetonide [300-2400 mcg/day]. The aboriginal balloon included 307 patients who were brash in an open-label appearance with ASMANEX TWISTHALER 220 mcg (110 mcg x 2 inhalations) alert circadian for 2 weeks followed by 12 weeks of double-blind appraisal with ASMANEX TWISTHALER 440 mcg already circadian in the morning or placebo. The added balloon complex 365 patients who connected on their antecedent dosage of inhaled corticosteroids during a 2-week screening aeon afore actuality switched to ASMANEX TWISTHALER 440 mcg alert daily, 220 mcg alert daily, 110 mcg alert daily, beclomethasone dipropionate 168 mcg alert daily, or placebo for 12 weeks.
In the aboriginal trial, AM predose FEV1 was finer maintained (-1.4% change from baseline to endpoint) over the 12 weeks in the patients who were randomized to ASMANEX TWISTHALER 440 mcg already circadian in the morning, while abbreviating 10% at endpoint in those switched to placebo. In addition, beneath patients brash with ASMANEX TWISTHALER able deepening of asthma compared to placebo.
In the added trial, AM predose FEV1 was decidedly added at endpoint aback patients were switched to ASMANEX TWISTHALER 220 mcg alert circadian (7% increase) or 440 mcg alert circadian (6.2% increase) as compared to a abatement of 7% aback switched to placebo. Additionally, beta-2 agonist accomplishment medication use was decreased for patients who accustomed ASMANEX TWISTHALER appraisal about to those on placebo (mean abridgement from baseline to endpoint 1.1 puffs/day vs. admission of 0.7 puffs/day). Beneath patients accepting ASMANEX TWISTHALER appraisal able asthma deepening than did patients accepting placebo.
The third balloon evaluated the adeptness and assurance of ASMANEX TWISTHALER compared to placebo in 400 asthmatic patients (mean FEV1 67% predicted at baseline) ahead maintained on beclomethasone dipropionate (hydrofluoroalkane [HFA] or chlorofluorocarbon [CFC]) 168-600 mcg/day, budesonide 200-1200 mcg/day, flunisolide 500-2000 mcg/day, fluticasone propionate 88-880 mcg/day, or triamcinolone acetonide 400-1600 mcg/day. Afterward a 28-day inhaled corticosteroid dose-reduction phase, patients were randomized to ASMANEX TWISTHALER 440 mcg already circadian in the atramentous , 220 mcg already circadian in the atramentous , 220 mcg alert daily, or placebo. At endpoint, patients who accustomed ASMANEX TWISTHALER 220 mcg already circadian in the evening, 440 mcg already circadian in the evening, or 220 mcg alert circadian had a cogent advance in AM FEV1 [0.41 L (19%), 0.49 L (22%), and 0.51 L (24%) in the 220 mcg already circadian in the evening, 440 mcg already circadian in the evening, and 220 mcg alert circadian appraisal group, respectively] compared to placebo [0.16 L (8%)] (see Bulk 2). Atramentous PEF added 15.65 L/min (4.1%) with the 220 mcg already circadian in the atramentous dose, 39.26 L/min (10.7%) with the 440 mcg already circadian in the atramentous dose, and 36.7 L/min (10.8%) with the 220 mcg alert circadian dose, respectively, compared to a 1.4 L/min (1%) admission with placebo. Patients accepting all doses of ASMANEX TWISTHALER appraisal had bargain abundance of beta-agonist accomplishment medication use compared to those on placebo (mean reductions at endpoint of 1.4-1.8 puffs/day from a baseline of added than 3 puffs/day compared to an admission in use by 0.5 puffs/day for placebo). In addition, beneath patients accepting ASMANEX TWISTHALER able asthma deepening than did those on placebo.
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Patients ≥ 12 Years of Age Ahead Maintained on Articulate Corticosteroids: The adeptness of ASMANEX TWISTHALER 440 mcg and 880 mcg alert circadian was evaluated in one 12-week, double-blind balloon in patients ahead maintained on articulate corticosteroids. A complete of 132 patients astute articulate prednisone (baseline beggarly circadian articulate prednisone claim about 12 mg; baseline FEV1 of 1.8 L, 59% of predicted normal), best of whom were additionally on inhaled corticosteroids (baseline inhaled steroid: beclomethasone dipropionate [168-840 mcg/day], budesonide [800-1600 mcg/day], flunisolide [1000-2000 mcg/day], fluticasone propionate [440-1760 mcg/day], or triamcinolone acetonide [400-2400 mcg/day]) were studied. Patients who accustomed ASMANEX TWISTHALER 440 mcg alert circadian had a cogent abridgement in their articulate prednisone (46%) as compared to placebo (164% admission in articulate prednisone dose). Additionally, 40% of patients on ASMANEX TWISTHALER 440 mcg alert circadian were able to absolutely abandon their use of prednisone, admitting 60% of patients on placebo had an admission in circadian prednisone use. Patients on ASMANEX TWISTHALER had cogent advance in lung activity (14% increase) compared to a 12% abatement in FEV1 in the placebo group. Additionally, beggarly accomplishment beta-2 agonist use was bargain to about 3 puffs/day from a baseline of 4-5 puffs/day with ASMANEX TWISTHALER treatment, compared to an admission of 0.3 puffs/day on placebo. Patients who accustomed ASMANEX TWISTHALER 880 mcg alert circadian able no added annual aloft that apparent with 440 mcg alert daily.
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Pediatric Patients 4 to 11 Years of Age: The adeptness of ASMANEX TWISTHALER in patients with asthma 4 to 11 years of age was evaluated in three 12-week, randomized, double- blind, placebo-controlled, parallel-group analytic trials. These trials included 630 patients accepting ASMANEX TWISTHALER, alignment from 4 to 11 years of age, 63% macho and 37% female, and 67% Caucasian, 13% black, 17% Hispanic, and 3% added race/ethnicity. Patients accustomed ASMANEX TWISTHALER 110 mcg already circadian in the atramentous (n=98), 110 mcg already circadian in the morning (n=181), 110 mcg alert circadian (n=179), or 220 mcg already circadian in the morning (n=172). The after-effects for 1 analytic balloon are declared below. The added 2 analytic trials abutment the adeptness of ASMANEX TWISTHALER.
A 12-week, placebo-controlled balloon of 296 patients 4 to 11 years of age with asthma of at atomic 6 months continuance (mean % predicted FEV1 at baseline alignment from 77.3%-79.7%) was conducted to authenticate the adeptness of the ASMANEX TWISTHALER in the appraisal of asthma. Patients were brash with ASMANEX TWISTHALER 110 mcg already circadian in the atramentous (n=98) or placebo (n=99) for 12 weeks. Assessment of adeptness was based aloft morning predose FEV1. The primary endpoint was the beggarly change from baseline to endpoint in percent-predicted FEV1. For the primary endpoint, advance in the ASMANEX TWISTHALER 110 mcg already circadian in the atramentous appraisal accession (4.73) was statistically cogent compared to placebo (-1.77). Bulk 3 displays the after-effects for % predicted FEV1 change from baseline at endpoint.
In this study, accessory endpoints of morning and atramentous aiguille expiratory breeze and accomplishment medication use were admiring of adeptness of ASMANEX TWISTHALER.
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16 HOW SUPPLIED/STORAGE AND HANDLING
The ASMANEX TWISTHALER 220 mcg artefact is comprised of an accumulated artificial cap–activated dosing apparatus with dosage counter, drug-product accumulator unit, drug-product conception (240 mg), and mouthpiece, covered by a white spiral cap that bears the artefact label. The anatomy of the inhaler is white and the axis anchor is blush with a bright artificial window advertence the cardinal of doses remaining. The inhaler will not bear consecutive doses already the adverse alcove aught (“00”).
The ASMANEX TWISTHALER 110 mcg artefact is comprised of an accumulated artificial cap–activated dosing apparatus with dosage counter, drug-product accumulator unit, drug-product conception (135 mg), and mouthpiece, covered by a white spiral cap that bears the artefact label. The anatomy of the inhaler is white and the axis anchor is gray with a bright artificial window advertence the cardinal of doses remaining. The inhaler will not bear consecutive doses already the adverse alcove aught (“00”).
The ASMANEX TWISTHALER artefact is accessible as:
ASMANEX TWISTHALER 220 mcg, which delivers 200 mcg mometasone furoate from the mouthpiece: 14 assimilation units (Institutional Use Only; NDC# 0085-1341-04); 30 assimilation units (NDC# 0085-1341-03); 60 assimilation units (For added than 1 assimilation daily; NDC# 0085-1341-02); or 120 assimilation units (For added than 2 inhalations daily; NDC# 0085-1341-01).
ASMANEX TWISTHALER 110 mcg, which delivers 100 mcg mometasone furoate from the mouthpiece: 7 assimilation units (Institutional Use Only; NDC# 0085-1461-07); 30 assimilation units (NDC# 0085-1461-02).
Each inhaler is supplied in a careful antithesis accessory with Patient’s Instructions for Use.
Store in a dry abode at 25°C (77°F); excursions able to 15°-30°C (59°-86°F) [see USP Controlled Allowance Temperature].
Discard the inhaler 45 canicule afterwards aperture the antithesis accessory or aback dosage adverse reads “00”, whichever comes first.
17 PATIENT COUNSELING INFORMATION
See FDA-Approved Accommodating Labeling (17.9)
17.1 Articulate Candidiasis
Patients should be brash that localized infections with Candida albicans occurred in the aperture and pharynx in some patients. If oropharyngeal candidiasis develops, it should be brash with adapted bounded or systemic (i.e., oral) antifungal appraisal while still continuing with ASMANEX TWISTHALER therapy, but at times appraisal with ASMANEX TWISTHALER may charge to be briefly disconnected beneath abutting medical supervision. Rinsing the aperture afterwards assimilation is brash [see Warnings and Precautions (5.1)].
17.2 Astute Asthma Episodes
Patients should be brash that ASMANEX TWISTHALER is not a bronchodilator and should not be acclimated to amusement cachet asthmaticus or to abate astute asthma symptoms. Astute asthma affection should be brash with an inhaled, short-acting beta-2 agonist such as albuterol [see Warnings and Precautions (5.2)].
17.3 Immunosuppression
Patients who are on immunosuppressant doses of corticosteroids should be warned to abstain acknowledgment to chickenpox or measles and, if exposed, to argue their physician afterwards delay. Patients should be abreast of abeyant deepening of complete tuberculosis, fungal, bacterial, viral, or abject infections, or ocular canker canker [see Warnings and Precautions (5.3)].
17.4 Hypercorticism and Adrenal Suppression
Patients should be brash that ASMANEX TWISTHALER may annual systemic corticosteroid furnishings of hypercorticism and adrenal suppression. Additionally, patients should be instructed that deaths due to adrenal dearth accept occurred during and afterwards alteration from systemic corticosteroids. Patients should abate boring from systemic corticosteroids if appointment to ASMANEX TWISTHALER [see Warnings and Precautions (5.5)].
17.5 Abridgement in Cartilage Mineral Density
Patients who are at an added accident for decreased BMD should be brash that the use of corticosteroids may affectation an added accident and should be monitored and, breadth appropriate, be brash for this activity [see Warnings and Precautions (5.6)].
17.6 Bargain Advance Velocity
Patients should be abreast that orally inhaled corticosteroids, including mometasone furoate assimilation powder, may annual a abridgement in advance acceleration aback administered to pediatric patients. Physicians should anxiously chase the advance of accouchement and adolescents demography corticosteroids by any avenue [see Warnings and Precautions (5.7)].
17.7 Use Circadian for Best Effect
Patients should be brash to use ASMANEX TWISTHALER at accustomed intervals, aback its capability depends on accustomed use. Best annual may not be able for 1 to 2 weeks or best afterwards starting treatment. If affection do not advance in that time anatomy or if the activity worsens, patients should be instructed to acquaintance their physician.
17.8 Instructions for Use
Patients should be instructed to almanac the date of accessory aperture on the cap label, and abandon the inhaler 45 canicule afterwards aperture the antithesis accessory or aback the dosage adverse reads “00” and the final dosage has been inhaled, whichever comes first. The inhaler should be captivated cocked while removing the cap. The medication should be taken as directed, animation rapidly and deeply, and patients should not breathe out through the inhaler. The advocate should be wiped dry and the cap replaced anon afterward anniversary inhalation, rotated absolutely until the bang is heard. Rinsing of aperture afterwards assimilation is advised. Patients should abundance the assemblage as instructed. The dosage adverse displays the doses remaining. Aback the dosage adverse indicates zero, the cap will lock and the assemblage charge be discarded. Patients should be brash that if the dosage adverse is not alive correctly, the assemblage should not be acclimated and it should be brought to their physician or pharmacist [see FDA-Approved Accommodating Labeling-Patient’s Instructions for Use (17.9)].
17.9 FDA-Approved Accommodating Labeling
see accompanying Patients Instructions for Use
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Manufactured by Schering Corporation, a accessory of Schering-Plough Corporation, Kenilworth, NJ 07033 USA.
17.9 FDA-Approved Accommodating Labeling
ASMANEX TWISTHALER 220 mcg (mometasone furoate assimilation powder)ASMANEX TWISTHALER 110 mcg (mometasone furoate assimilation powder)FOR ORAL INHALATION ONLY
Patient’s Instructions for Use
IMPORTANT POINTS TO REMEMBER ABOUT ASMANEX TWISTHALER
HOW TO USE ASMANEX TWISTHALER OR GIVE TO YOUR CHILD
Inhaler Parts:
See Figures 1 and 2 beneath to become accustomed with the inhaler parts.
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Figure 1: Inhaler (upright position)
Figure 2: Inhaler with Cap Removed
Step 1: Accessible inhaler
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Hold the inhaler beeline up (upright position) with the black allocation (the base) on the basal (see Bulk 3 below). It is important that you abolish the cap of the TWISTHALER while it is in this cocked position to accomplish abiding that you get the adapted bulk of anesthetic with anniversary dose.
Holding the black base, aberration the cap in a counterclockwise administering to abolish it (see Bulk 3 below). As you lift off the cap, the dosage adverse on the abject will calculation bottomward by one. Removing the cap endless the TWISTHALER with the anesthetic that you are now accessible to inhale.
Figure 3: Cap Removal Endless Dose
IT IS IMPORTANT TO NOTE that the biconcave arrow (located on the white allocation of the TWISTHALER, anon aloft the black base) is pointing to the dosage adverse (see Bulk 2).
Step 2: Drag dose
Breathe out fully. Afresh accompany the TWISTHALER up to your aperture or your child’s aperture with the advocate adverse against you or your child. Abode the advocate in your aperture or your child’s mouth, captivation it in a accumbent (on its side) position as apparent beneath (see Bulk 4). Durably abutting your aperture about the advocate and booty in a fast, abysmal breath. Aback the anesthetic is a actual accomplished powder, you may not be able to taste, smell, or feel it afterwards inhalation. Do not awning the blast holes while inhaling the dose.
Figure 4: Inhalation
Remove the TWISTHALER from your aperture and authority your animation for about 10 seconds, or as connected as you calmly can.
IMPORTANT: DO NOT BREATHE OUT (EXHALE) INTO THE INHALER.
After you booty your medicine, it is important that you apple-pie the advocate dry, if needed, and afresh REPLACE THE CAP, durably closing the TWISTHALER adapted abroad (see Figures 5 and 6 below).
Be abiding that the biconcave arrow is in band with the dosage counter. Put the cap aback assimilate the inhaler and about-face it in a clockwise direction, as you acclaim columnist down. You’ll apprehend a “click” to let you apperceive that the cap is absolutely closed. This is the abandoned way to be abiding that your abutting dosage is loaded the adapted way.
Figure 5: Closing the Inhaler
Figure 6: Bankrupt Inhaler
IT IS IMPORTANT TO REPEAT STEPS 1 AND 2 EACH TIME YOU INHALE.
Rinse your aperture afterwards using.
STORING YOUR INHALER
HOW TO KNOW WHEN YOUR INHALER IS EMPTY
The inhaler has a dosage adverse on the black base, which shows the cardinal of doses larboard to use. As you lift off the cap to booty your dose, the dosage adverse on the abject will calculation bottomward by one (if you began with the dosage adverse account “30” this will annual the dosage adverse to now apprehend “29”). Apprehend the numbers from top to bottom.
When the assemblage reads “01” this indicates the aftermost actual dose. Afterwards dosage “01” the adverse will apprehend “00”. Aback you alter the cap, the assemblage will lock and afresh charge be befuddled away. Alpha application a new ASMANEX TWISTHALER as instructed by your bloom affliction provider.
POSSIBLE SIDE EFFECTS WITH ASMANEX TWISTHALER
Serious Ancillary Furnishings may include:
The best accustomed ancillary furnishings with ASMANEX TWISTHALER include: headache, nasal abhorrence symptoms, abscessed throat, aerial respiratory amplitude infection, atrium infection, fungal infections in the mouth, aching menstrual periods, beef and cartilage pain, aback pain, and agitated stomach.
Tell your bloom affliction able about any ancillary furnishings that bother you or do not go away. These are not all of the accessible ancillary furnishings with ASMANEX TWISTHALER. For added information, ask your bloom affliction professional.
FORADIL®AEROLIZER®
(formoterol fumarate assimilation powder)
For Articulate Assimilation Only
Rx only
Prescribing Information
WARNING: Long-acting beta2-adrenergic agonists may admission the accident of asthma-related death. Therefore, aback alleviative patients with asthma, FORADIL AEROLIZER should abandoned be acclimated as added appraisal for patients not abundantly controlled on added asthma-controller medications (e.g., low- to medium-dose inhaled corticosteroids) or whose ache severity acutely warrants admission of appraisal with two aliment therapies, including FORADIL AEROLIZER. Abstracts from a ample placebo-controlled US abstraction that compared the assurance of accession long-acting beta2-adrenergic agonist (salmeterol) or placebo added to accepted asthma appraisal showed an admission in asthma-related deaths in patients accepting salmeterol. This award with salmeterol may administer to formoterol (a long-acting beta2-adrenergic agonist), the alive additive in FORADIL AEROLIZER (see WARNINGS).
DESCRIPTION
FORADIL® AEROLIZER® consists of a abridged dosage anatomy complete a dry crumb conception of FORADIL (formoterol fumarate) brash for articulate assimilation abandoned with the AEROLIZER Inhaler.
Each clear, adamantine gelatin abridged contains a dry crumb alloy of 12 mcg of formoterol fumarate and 25 mg of lactose (which contains trace levels of milk proteins) as a carrier.
The alive basic of FORADIL is formoterol fumarate, a racemate. Formoterol fumarate is a careful beta2-adrenergic bronchodilator. Its actinic name is (±)-2-hydroxy-5-[(1RS)-1-hydroxy-2-[[(1RS)-2-(4-methoxyphenyl)-1-methylethyl]-amino]ethyl]formanilide fumarate dihydrate; its structural blueprint is
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Formoterol fumarate has a atomic weight of 840.9, and its empiric blueprint is (C19H24N2O4)2•C4H4O4•2H2O. Formoterol fumarate is a white to bare apparent powder, which is advisedly acrid in arctic acerb acid, acrid in methanol, sparingly acrid in booze and isopropanol, hardly acrid in water, and about baffling in acetone, ethyl acetate, and diethyl ether.
The AEROLIZER Inhaler is a artificial accessory acclimated for inhaling FORADIL. The bulk of biologic delivered to the lung will depend on accommodating factors, such as inspiratory breeze bulk and inspiratory time. Beneath connected in vitro testing at a anchored breeze bulk of 60 L/min for 2 seconds, the AEROLIZER Inhaler delivered 10 mcg of formoterol fumarate from the mouthpiece. Aiguille inspiratory breeze ante (PIFR) accessible through the AEROLIZER Inhaler were evaluated in 33 developed and boyish patients and 32 pediatric patients with mild-to-moderate asthma. Beggarly PIFR was 117.82 L/min (range 34-188 L/min) for developed and boyish patients, and 99.66 L/min (range 43-187 L/min) for pediatric patients. About ninety percent of anniversary citizenry brash generated a PIFR through the accessory aloft 60 L/min.
To use the commitment system, a FORADIL abridged is placed in the able-bodied of the AEROLIZER Inhaler, and the abridged is broken by astute and absolution the buttons on the ancillary of the device. The formoterol fumarate conception is broadcast into the air beck aback the accommodating inhales rapidly and acutely through the mouthpiece.
CLINICAL PHARMACOLOGY
Mechanism of Action
Formoterol fumarate is a long-acting careful beta2-adrenergic receptor agonist (beta2-agonist). Inhaled formoterol fumarate acts locally in the lung as a bronchodilator. In vitro studies accept apparent that formoterol has added than 200-fold greater agonist activity at beta2-receptors than at beta1-receptors. Although beta2-receptors are the absolute adrenergic receptors in bronchial bland beef and beta1-receptors are the absolute receptors in the heart, there are additionally beta2-receptors in the beastly affection absolute 10%-50% of the complete beta-adrenergic receptors. The complete activity of these receptors has not been established, but they accession the achievability that alike awful careful beta2-agonists may accept cardiac effects.
The pharmacologic furnishings of beta2-adrenoceptor agonist drugs, including formoterol, are at atomic in allotment attributable to dispatch of intracellular adenyl cyclase, the agitator that catalyzes the about-face of adenosine triphosphate (ATP) to cyclic-3', 5'-adenosine monophosphate (cyclic AMP). Added circadian AMP levels annual alleviation of bronchial bland beef and inhibition of absolution of mediators of actual hypersensitivity from cells, abnormally from mast cells.
In vitro tests appearance that formoterol is an inhibitor of the absolution of mast corpuscle mediators, such as histamine and leukotrienes, from the beastly lung. Formoterol additionally inhibits histamine-induced claret albumin extravasation in anesthetized guinea pigs and inhibits allergen-induced eosinophil arrival in dogs with airway hyper-responsiveness. The appliance of these in vitro and beastly allegation to bodies is unknown.
Animal Pharmacology
Studies in chic animals (minipigs, rodents, and dogs) accept accustomed the accident of cardiac arrhythmias and abrupt afterlife (with histologic affirmation of myocardial necrosis) aback beta-agonists and methylxanthines are administered concurrently. The analytic acceptation of these allegation is unknown.
Pharmacokinetics
Information on the pharmacokinetics of formoterol in claret has been acquired in advantageous capacity by articulate assimilation of doses college than the recommended ambit and in Abiding Adverse Pulmonary Ache (COPD) patients afterwards articulate assimilation of doses at and aloft the ameliorative dose. Urinary abolishment of banausic formoterol was acclimated as an aberrant admeasurement of systemic exposure. Claret biologic disposition abstracts alongside urinary excretion, and the abolishment half-lives affected for urine and claret are similar.
Absorption
Following assimilation of a distinct 120 mcg dosage of formoterol fumarate by 12 advantageous subjects, formoterol was rapidly captivated into plasma, all-encompassing a best biologic assimilation of 92 pg/mL aural 5 annual of dosing. In COPD patients brash for 12 weeks with formoterol fumarate 12 or 24 mcg b.i.d., the beggarly claret concentrations of formoterol ranged amid 4.0 and 8.8 pg/mL and 8.0 and 17.3 pg/mL, respectively, at 10 min, 2 h and 6 h column inhalation.
Following assimilation of 12 to 96 mcg of formoterol fumarate by 10 advantageous males, urinary abolishment of both (R,R)- and (S,S)-enantiomers of formoterol added proportionally to the dose. Thus, assimilation of formoterol afterward assimilation appeared beeline over the dosage ambit studied.
In a abstraction in patients with asthma, aback formoterol 12 or 24 mcg alert circadian was accustomed by articulate assimilation for 4 weeks or 12 weeks, the accession index, based on the urinary abolishment of banausic formoterol ranged from 1.63 to 2.08 in allegory with the aboriginal dose. For COPD patients, aback formoterol 12 or 24 mcg alert circadian was accustomed by articulate assimilation for 12 weeks, the accession index, based on the urinary abolishment of banausic formoterol was 1.19 - 1.38. This suggests some accession of formoterol in claret with assorted dosing. The excreted amounts of formoterol at steady-state were abutting to those predicted based on single-dose kinetics. As with abounding biologic articles for articulate inhalation, it is able that the majority of the inhaled formoterol fumarate delivered is swallowed and afresh captivated from the gastrointestinal tract.
Distribution
The bounden of formoterol to beastly claret proteins in vitro was 61%-64% at concentrations from 0.1 to 100 ng/mL. Bounden to beastly serum albumin in vitro was 31%-38% over a ambit of 5 to 500 ng/mL. The concentrations of formoterol acclimated to appraise the claret protein bounden were college than those able in claret afterward assimilation of a distinct 120 mcg dose.
Metabolism
Formoterol is metabolized primarily by absolute glucuronidation at either the phenolic or aliphatic hydroxyl accession and O-demethylation followed by glucuronide alliance at either phenolic hydroxyl groups. Minor pathways absorb sulfate alliance of formoterol and deformylation followed by sulfate conjugation. The best arresting alleyway involves absolute alliance at the phenolic hydroxyl group. The added aloft alleyway involves O-demethylation followed by alliance at the phenolic 2'-hydroxyl group. Four cytochrome P450 isozymes (CYP2D6, CYP2C19, CYP2C9 and CYP2A6) are complex in the O-demethylation of formoterol. Formoterol did not arrest CYP450 enzymes at therapeutically accordant concentrations. Some patients may be amiss in CYP2D6 or 2C19 or both. Whether a absence in one or both of these isozymes after-effects in animated systemic acknowledgment to formoterol or systemic adverse furnishings has not been abundantly explored.
Excretion
Following articulate administering of 80 mcg of radiolabeled formoterol fumarate to 2 advantageous subjects, 59%-62% of the radioactivity was abandoned in the urine and 32%-34% in the carrion over a aeon of 104 hours. Renal approval of formoterol from claret in these capacity was about 150 mL/min. Afterward assimilation of a 12 mcg or 24 mcg dosage by 16 patients with asthma, about 10% and 15%-18% of the complete dosage was excreted in the urine as banausic formoterol and absolute conjugates of formoterol, respectively. Afterward assimilation of 12 mcg or 24 mcg dosage by 18 patients with COPD the agnate ethics were 7% and 6-9% of the dose, respectively.
Based on claret concentrations abstinent afterward assimilation of a distinct 120 mcg dosage by 12 advantageous subjects, the beggarly terminal abolishment half-life was bent to be 10 hours. From urinary abolishment ante abstinent in these subjects, the beggarly terminal abolishment half-lives for the (R,R)- and (S,S)-enantiomers were bent to be 13.9 and 12.3 hours, respectively. The (R,R)- and (S,S)-enantiomers represented about 40% and 60% of banausic biologic excreted in the urine, respectively, afterward distinct inhaled doses amid 12 and 120 mcg in advantageous volunteers and distinct and afresh doses of 12 and 24 mcg in patients with asthma. Thus, the about admeasurement of the two enantiomers remained connected over the dosage ambit brash and there was no affirmation of about accession of one enantiomer over the added afterwards afresh dosing.
Special Populations
Gender: Afterwards alteration for anatomy weight, formoterol pharmacokinetics did not alter decidedly amid males and females.
Geriatric and Pediatric: The pharmacokinetics of formoterol accept not been brash in the age-old population, and bound abstracts are accessible in pediatric patients.
In a abstraction of accouchement with asthma who were 5 to 12 years of age, aback formoterol fumarate 12 or 24 mcg was accustomed alert circadian by articulate assimilation for 12 weeks, the accession abject ranged from 1.18 to 1.84 based on urinary abolishment of banausic formoterol. Hence, the accession in accouchement did not beat that in adults, breadth the accession abject ranged from 1.63 to 2.08 (see above). About 6% and 6.5% to 9% of the dosage was recovered in the urine of the accouchement as banausic and conjugated formoterol, respectively.
Hepatic/Renal Impairment: The pharmacokinetics of formoterol accept not been brash in capacity with hepatic or renal impairment.
Pharmacodynamics
Systemic Assurance and Pharmacokinetic/Pharmacodynamic Relationships
The aloft adverse furnishings of inhaled beta2-agonists activity as a aftereffect of boundless activation of the systemic beta-adrenergic receptors. The best accustomed adverse furnishings in adults and adolescents accommodate ashen beef agitation and cramps, insomnia, tachycardia, decreases in claret potassium, and increases in claret glucose.
Pharmacokinetic/pharmacodynamic (PK/PD) relationships amid affection rate, ECG parameters, and serum potassium levels and the urinary abolishment of formoterol were evaluated in 10 advantageous macho volunteers (25 to 45 years of age) afterward assimilation of distinct doses complete 12, 24, 48, or 96 mcg of formoterol fumarate. There was a beeline accord amid urinary formoterol abolishment and decreases in serum potassium, increases in claret glucose, and increases in affection rate.
In a added study, PK/PD relationships amid claret formoterol levels and beating rate, ECG parameters, and claret potassium levels were evaluated in 12 advantageous volunteers afterward assimilation of a distinct 120 mcg dosage of formoterol fumarate (10 times the recommended analytic dose). Reductions of claret potassium assimilation were empiric in all subjects. Best reductions from baseline ranged from 0.55 to 1.52 mmol/L with a average best abridgement of 1.01 mmol/L. The formoterol claret assimilation was awful activated with the abridgement in claret potassium concentration. Generally, the best aftereffect on claret potassium was acclaimed 1 to 3 hours afterwards aiguille formoterol claret concentrations were achieved. A beggarly best admission of beating bulk of 26 bpm was empiric 6 hours column dose. The best admission of beggarly adapted QT breach (QTc) was 25 msec aback affected application Bazett's alteration and was 8 msec aback affected application Fridericia's correction. The QTc alternate to baseline aural 12-24 hours post-dose. Formoterol claret concentrations were abominably activated with beating bulk and admission of QTc duration. The furnishings on claret potassium, beating rate, and QTc breach are accustomed pharmacological furnishings of this chic of abstraction biologic and were not abrupt at the actual aerial formoterol dosage (120 mcg distinct dose, 10 times the recommended distinct dose) activated in this study. These furnishings were well-tolerated by the advantageous volunteers.
The electrocardiographic and cardiovascular furnishings of FORADIL AEROLIZER were compared with those of albuterol and placebo in two cardinal 12-week double-blind studies of patients with asthma. A subset of patients underwent connected electrocardiographic ecology during three 24-hour periods. No important differences in ventricular or supraventricular ectopy amid appraisal groups were observed. In these two studies, the complete cardinal of patients with asthma apparent to any dosage of FORADIL AEROLIZER who had connected electrocardiographic ecology was about 200.
Continuous electrocardiographic ecology was not included in the analytic studies of FORADIL AEROLIZER that were performed in COPD patients. The electrocardiographic furnishings of FORADIL AEROLIZER were evaluated adjoin placebo in a 12-month cardinal double-blind abstraction of patients with COPD. An appraisal of ECG intervals was performed for patients who alternate at abstraction sites in the United States, including 46 patients brash with FORADIL AEROLIZER 12 mcg alert daily, and 50 patients brash with FORADIL AEROLIZER 24 mcg alert daily. ECGs were performed predose, and at 5-15 annual and 2 hours post-dose at abstraction baseline and afterwards 3, 6 and 12 months of treatment. The after-effects showed that there was no clinically allusive astute or abiding aftereffect on ECG intervals, including QTc, connected from appraisal with FORADIL AEROLIZER.
Tachyphylaxis/Tolerance
In a analytic abstraction in 19 developed patients with balmy asthma, the bronchoprotective aftereffect of formoterol, as adjourned by methacholine challenge, was brash afterward an antecedent dosage of 24 mcg (twice the recommended dose) and afterwards 2 weeks of 24 mcg alert daily. Tolerance to the bronchoprotective furnishings of formoterol was empiric as apparent by a beneath bronchoprotective aftereffect on FEV1 afterwards 2 weeks of dosing, with accident of aegis at the end of the 12 hour dosing period.
Rebound bronchial hyper-responsiveness afterwards abeyance of abiding formoterol appraisal has not been observed.
In three ample analytic trials in patients with asthma, while adeptness of formoterol adjoin placebo was maintained, a hardly bargain bronchodilatory acknowledgment (as abstinent by 12-hour FEV1 AUC) was empiric aural the formoterol accoutrements over time, decidedly with the 24 mcg alert circadian dosage (twice the circadian recommended dose). A analogously bargain FEV1 AUC over time was additionally acclaimed in the albuterol appraisal accoutrements (180 mcg four times circadian by metered-dose inhaler).
CLINICAL TRIALS
Adolescent and Developed Asthma Trials
In a placebo-controlled, single-dose analytic trial, the access of bronchodilation (defined as a 15% or greater admission from baseline in FEV1) was agnate for FORADIL AEROLIZER and albuterol 180 mcg by metered-dose inhaler.
In single-dose and multiple-dose analytic trials, the best advance in FEV1 for FORADIL AEROLIZER 12 mcg about occurred aural 1 to 3 hours, and an admission in FEV1 aloft baseline was empiric for 12 hours in best patients.
FORADIL AEROLIZER 12 mcg alert circadian was compared to FORADIL AEROLIZER 24 mcg alert daily, albuterol 180 mcg four times circadian by metered-dose inhaler, and placebo in a complete of 1095 developed and boyish patients 12 years of age and aloft with mild-to-moderate asthma (defined as FEV1 40%-80% of the patient's predicted accustomed value) who alternate in two pivotal, 12-week, multi-center, randomized, double-blind, alongside accession studies.
The after-effects of both studies showed that FORADIL AEROLIZER 12 mcg alert circadian resulted in decidedly greater post-dose bronchodilation (as abstinent by consecutive FEV1 for 12 hours post-dose) throughout the 12-week appraisal period. There was no cogent abnormality in post-dose bronchodilation amid FORADIL AEROLIZER 12 mcg alert circadian and FORADIL AEROLIZER 24 mcg alert daily, but austere asthma exacerbations occurred added frequently in the college dosage accession (see WARNINGS and ADVERSE REACTIONS). Beggarly FEV1 abstracts from both studies are apparent beneath for the aboriginal and aftermost appraisal canicule (see Figures 1 and 2).
Figures 1a and 1b: Beggarly FEV1from Analytic Balloon A
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Figures 2a and 2b: Beggarly FEV1from Analytic Balloon B
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Compared with placebo and albuterol, patients brash with FORADIL AEROLIZER 12 mcg accustomed advance in abounding accessory adeptness endpoints, including bigger accumulated and nocturnal asthma affirmation scores, beneath caliginosity awakenings, beneath nights in which patients acclimated accomplishment medication, and college morning and atramentous aiguille breeze rates. FORADIL AEROLIZER 24 mcg alert circadian did not accommodate any added improvements in these accessory endpoints compared to FORADIL AEROLIZER 12 mcg alert daily.
A 16-week, randomized, multi-center, double-blind, parallel-group abstraction enrolled 1568 patients 12 years of age and earlier with mild-to-moderate asthma (defined as FEV1 ≥40% of the patient’s predicted accustomed value) in three appraisal groups: FORADIL AEROLIZER 12 mcg alert daily, FORADIL AEROLIZER 24 mcg alert daily, and placebo. The study’s primary endpoint was the accident of austere asthma-related adverse events. Austere asthma exacerbations occurred in 3 (0.6%) patients who accustomed FORADIL AEROLIZER 12 mcg alert daily, 2 (0.4%) patients who accustomed FORADIL AEROLIZER 24 mcg alert daily, and 1 (0.2%) accommodating who accustomed placebo. The admeasurement of this abstraction was not able to absolutely quantify the differences in austere asthma deepening ante amid appraisal groups. All austere asthma exacerbations resulted in hospitalizations. While there were no deaths in the study, the continuance and admeasurement of this abstraction were not able to quantify the bulk of asthma-related death. See WARNINGS for admonition about a abstraction which compared accession long-acting beta2-adrenergic agonist to placebo.
Pediatric Asthma Trial
A 12-month, multi-center, randomized, double-blind, parallel-group, abstraction compared FORADIL AEROLIZER 12 mcg alert circadian and FORADIL AEROLIZER 24 mcg alert circadian to placebo in a complete of 518 accouchement with asthma (ages 5-12 years) who adapted circadian bronchodilators and anti-inflammatory treatment. Adeptness was evaluated on the aboriginal day of treatment, at Anniversary 12, and at the end of treatment.
FORADIL AEROLIZER 12 mcg alert circadian accustomed a greater 12-hour FEV1 AUC compared to placebo on the aboriginal day of treatment, afterwards twelve weeks of treatment, and afterwards one year of treatment. FORADIL AEROLIZER 24 mcg alert circadian did not aftereffect in any added advance in 12-hour FEV1 AUC compared to FORADIL AEROLIZER 12 mcg alert daily.
Exercise-Induced Bronchospasm Trials
The aftereffect of FORADIL AEROLIZER on exercise-induced bronchospasm (defined as >20% abatement in FEV1) was brash in four randomized, single-dose, double-blind, crossover studies in a complete of 77 patients 4 to 41 years of age with exercise-induced bronchospasm. Exercise claiming testing was conducted 15 minutes, and 4, 8, and 12 hours afterward administering of a distinct dosage of abstraction biologic (FORADIL AEROLIZER 12 mcg, albuterol 180 mcg by metered-dose inhaler, or placebo) on abstracted appraisal days. FORADIL AEROLIZER 12 mcg and albuterol 180 mcg were anniversary aloft to placebo for FEV1 abstracts acquired 15 annual afterwards abstraction biologic administration. FORADIL AEROLIZER 12 mcg maintained ahead over placebo at 4, 8, and 12 hours afterwards administration. Best capacity were able from exercise-induced bronchospasm for up to 12 hours afterward administering of FORADIL AEROLIZER; however, some were not. The adeptness of FORADIL AEROLIZER in the blockage of exercise-induced bronchospasm aback dosed on a accustomed alert circadian dieting has not been studied.
Adult COPD Trials
In multiple-dose analytic trials in patients with COPD, FORADIL AEROLIZER 12 mcg was apparent to accommodate access of cogent bronchodilation (defined as 15% or greater admission from baseline in FEV1) aural 5 annual of articulate assimilation afterwards the aboriginal dose. Bronchodilation was maintained for at atomic 12 hours.
FORADIL AEROLIZER was brash in two pivotal, double-blind, placebo-controlled, randomized, multi-center, parallel-group trials in a complete of 1634 developed patients (age range: 34-88 years; beggarly age: 63 years) with COPD who had a beggarly FEV1 that was 46% of predicted. The appraisal of COPD was based aloft a above-mentioned analytic appraisal of COPD, a smoker history (greater than 10 pack-years), age (at atomic 40 years), spirometry after-effects (prebronchodilator baseline FEV1 beneath than 70% of the predicted value, and at atomic 0.75 liters, with the FEV1/VC actuality beneath than 88% for men and beneath than 89% for women), and affirmation account (greater than aught on at atomic four of the seven canicule above-mentioned to randomization). These studies included about according numbers of patients with and afterwards baseline bronchodilator reversibility, authentic as a 15% or greater admission FEV1 afterwards assimilation of 200 mcg of albuterol sulfate. A complete of 405 patients accustomed FORADIL AEROLIZER 12 mcg, administered alert daily. Anniversary balloon compared FORADIL AEROLIZER 12 mcg alert circadian and FORADIL AEROLIZER 24 mcg alert circadian with placebo and an alive ascendancy drug. The alive ascendancy biologic was ipratropium boiler in COPD Balloon A, and slow-release theophylline in COPD Balloon B (the theophylline arm in this abstraction was open-label). The appraisal aeon was 12 weeks in COPD Balloon A, and 12 months in COPD Balloon B.
The after-effects showed that FORADIL AEROLIZER 12 mcg alert circadian resulted in decidedly greater post-dose bronchodilation (as abstinent by consecutive FEV1 for 12 hours post-dose; the primary adeptness analysis) compared to placebo aback evaluated afterwards 12 weeks of appraisal in both trials, and afterwards 12 months of appraisal in the 12-month balloon (COPD Balloon B). Compared to FORADIL AEROLIZER 12 mcg alert daily, FORADIL AEROLIZER 24 mcg alert circadian did not accommodate any added annual on a array of endpoints including FEV1.
Mean FEV1 abstracts afterwards 12 weeks of appraisal for one of the two aloft adeptness studies are apparent in the bulk below.
Figure 3
Mean FEV1after 12 Weeks of appraisal from COPD Balloon A
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FORADIL AEROLIZER 12 mcg alert circadian was statistically aloft to placebo at all post-dose timepoints activated (from 5 annual to 12 hours post-dose) throughout the 12-week (COPD Balloon A) and 12-month (COPD Balloon B) appraisal periods.
In both cardinal trials compared with placebo, patients brash with FORADIL AEROLIZER 12 mcg accustomed bigger morning pre-medication aiguille expiratory breeze ante and took beneath puffs of accomplishment albuterol.
INDICATIONS AND USAGE
Asthma
FORADIL AEROLIZER is adumbrated for long-term, twice-daily (morning and evening) administering in the aliment appraisal of asthma and in the blockage of bronchospasm in adults and accouchement 5 years of age and earlier with capricious adverse airways disease, including patients with affection of nocturnal asthma.
Long-acting beta2-adrenergic agonists may admission the accident of asthma-related afterlife (see WARNINGS). Therefore, aback alleviative patients with asthma, FORADIL AEROLIZER should abandoned be acclimated as added appraisal for patients not abundantly controlled on added asthma-controller medications (e.g., low- to medium-dose inhaled corticosteroids) or whose ache severity acutely warrants admission of appraisal with two aliment therapies, including FORADIL AEROLIZER. It is not adumbrated for patients whose asthma can be managed by casual use of inhaled, short-acting, beta2-agonists or for patients whose asthma can be auspiciously managed by inhaled corticosteroids or added ambassador medications forth with casual use of inhaled, short-acting beta2-agonists.
FORADIL AEROLIZER is additionally adumbrated for the astute blockage of exercise-induced bronchospasm (EIB) in adults and accouchement 5 years of age and older, aback administered on an occasional, as-needed basis.
Chronic Adverse Pulmonary Disease
FORADIL AEROLIZER is adumbrated for the long-term, alert circadian (morning and evening) administering in the aliment appraisal of bronchoconstriction in patients with Abiding Adverse Pulmonary Ache including abiding bronchitis and emphysema.
CONTRAINDICATIONS
FORADIL (formoterol fumarate) is contraindicated in patients with a history of hypersensitivity to formoterol fumarate or to any apparatus of this product.
WARNINGS
Paradoxical Bronchospasm
As with added inhaled beta2-agonists, formoterol can aftermath abstruse bronchospasm, that may be life-threatening. If abstruse bronchospasm occurs, FORADIL AEROLIZER should be discontinued anon and accession appraisal instituted.
Deterioration of Asthma
Asthma may adulterate acutely over a aeon of hours or chronically over several canicule or longer. It is important to watch for signs of deepening asthma, such as accretion use of inhaled, short-acting beta2-adrenergic agonists or a cogent abatement in aiguille expiratory breeze (PEF) or lung function. Such allegation crave actual evaluation. Patients should be brash to seek actual absorption should their activity deteriorate. Accretion the circadian dosage of FORADIL AEROLIZER aloft the recommended dosage in this bearings is not appropriate. FORADIL AEROLIZER should not be acclimated added frequently than alert circadian (morning and evening) at the recommended dose.Use of
Anti-inflammatory Agents
For the appraisal of asthma, FORADIL AEROLIZER should abandoned be acclimated as added appraisal for patients not abundantly controlled on added asthma-controller medications (e.g., low- to medium-dose inhaled corticosteroids) or whose ache severity acutely warrants admission of appraisal with two aliment therapies, including FORADIL AEROLIZER. There are no abstracts demonstrating that FORADIL has any analytic anti-inflammatory aftereffect and accordingly it cannot be accustomed to booty the abode of corticosteroids. Patients who already crave articulate or inhaled corticosteroids for appraisal of asthma should be connected on this blazon of appraisal alike if they feel bigger as a aftereffect of initiating FORADIL AEROLIZER. Any change in corticosteroid dosage, in accurate a reduction, should be fabricated ONLY afterwards analytic appraisal (see PRECAUTIONS, Admonition for Patients).
Cardiovascular Effects
Formoterol fumarate, like added beta2-agonists, can aftermath a clinically cogent cardiovascular aftereffect in some patients as abstinent by increases in beating rate, claret pressure, and/or symptoms. Although such furnishings are aberrant afterwards administering of FORADIL AEROLIZER at recommended doses, if they occur, the biologic may charge to be discontinued. In addition, beta-agonists accept been appear to aftermath ECG changes, such as flattening of the T wave, assiduity of the QTc interval, and ST articulation depression. The analytic acceptation of these allegation is unknown. Therefore, formoterol fumarate, like added sympathomimetic amines, should be acclimated with absorption in patients with cardiovascular disorders, abnormally coronary insufficiency, cardiac arrhythmias, and hypertension (see PRECAUTIONS, General).
Immediate Hypersensitivity Reactions
Immediate hypersensitivity reactions may activity afterwards administering of FORADIL AEROLIZER, as accustomed by cases of anaphylactic reactions, urticaria, angioedema, rash, and bronchospasm.
Do Not Beat Recommended Dose
Fatalities accept been appear in affiliation with boundless use of inhaled sympathomimetic drugs in patients with asthma. The exact annual of afterlife is unknown, but cardiac arrest afterward an abrupt development of a astringent astute asthmatic crisis and consecutive hypoxia is suspected. In addition, abstracts from analytic trials with FORADIL AEROLIZER advance that the use of doses college than recommended is associated with an added accident of austere asthma exacerbations (see ADVERSE REACTIONS).
PRECAUTIONS
General
FORADIL AEROLIZER should not be acclimated to amusement astute affection of asthma. FORADIL AEROLIZER has not been brash in the abatement of astute asthma affection and added doses should not be acclimated for that purpose. Aback prescribing FORADIL AEROLIZER, the physician should additionally accommodate the accommodating with an inhaled, short-acting beta2-agonist for appraisal of affection that activity acutely, admitting accustomed twice-daily (morning and evening) use of FORADIL AEROLIZER. Patients should additionally be cautioned that accretion inhaled beta2-agonist use is a arresting of breakable asthma. (See Admonition for Patients and the accompanying Medication Guide.)
Formoterol fumarate, like added sympathomimetic amines, should be acclimated with absorption in patients with cardiovascular disorders, abnormally coronary insufficiency, cardiac arrhythmias, and hypertension; in patients with convulsive disorders or thyrotoxicosis; and in patients who are almighty acknowledging to sympathomimetic amines. Clinically cogent changes in systolic and/or diastolic claret pressure, beating bulk and electrocardiograms accept been apparent infrequently in abandoned patients in controlled analytic studies with formoterol. Doses of the accompanying beta2-agonist albuterol, aback administered intravenously, accept been appear to aggravate preexisting diabetes mellitus and ketoacidosis.
Beta-agonist medications may aftermath cogent hypokalemia in some patients, possibly through intracellular shunting, which has the abeyant to aftermath adverse cardiovascular effects. The abatement in serum potassium is usually transient, not astute supplementation.
Clinically cogent changes in claret glucose and/or serum potassium were exceptional during analytic studies with abiding administering of FORADIL AEROLIZER at the recommended dose.
FORADIL AEROLIZER contains lactose, which contains trace levels of milk proteins. Allergic reactions to articles complete milk proteins may activity in patients with astringent milk protein allergy.
FORADIL capsules should ONLY be acclimated with the AEROLIZER Inhaler and SHOULD NOT be taken orally.
FORADIL capsules should consistently be stored in the blister, and abandoned removed IMMEDIATELY afore use.
Information for Patients
Patients should be instructed to apprehend the accompanying Medication Guide with anniversary new decree and refill. The complete argument of the Medication Guide is reprinted at the end of this document. Patients should be accustomed the afterward information:
1. Patients should be abreast that long-acting beta2-adrenergic agonists may admission the accident of asthma-related death.
2. FORADIL AEROLIZER is not adumbrated to abate astute asthma affection and added doses should not be acclimated for that purpose. Astute affection should be brash with an inhaled, short-acting, beta2-agonist (the health-care provider should appoint the accommodating with such medication and acquaint the accommodating in how it should be used). Patients should be instructed to seek medical absorption if their affection worsen, if FORADIL AEROLIZER appraisal becomes beneath effective, or if they charge added inhalations of a short-acting beta2-agonist than usual. Patients should not drag added than the capacity of one abridged at any one time. The circadian dosage of FORADIL AEROLIZER should not beat one abridged alert circadian (24 mcg complete circadian dose).
3. FORADIL AEROLIZER should not be acclimated as a acting for articulate or inhaled corticosteroids. The dosage of these medications should not be afflicted and they should not be chock-full afterwards consulting the physician, alike if the accommodating feels bigger afterwards initiating appraisal with FORADIL AEROLIZER.
4. The alive additive of FORADIL (formoterol fumarate) is a long-acting, bronchodilator acclimated for the appraisal of asthma, including nocturnal asthma, and for the blockage of exercise-induced bronchospasm. FORADIL AEROLIZER provides bronchodilation for up to 12 hours. Patients should be brash not to admission the dosage or abundance of FORADIL AEROLIZER afterwards consulting the prescribing physician. Patients should be warned not to stop or abate accessory asthma appraisal afterwards medical advice.
5. Aback FORADIL AEROLIZER is acclimated for the blockage of EIB, the capacity of one abridged should be taken at atomic 15 annual above-mentioned to exercise. Added doses of FORADIL AEROLIZER should not be acclimated for 12 hours. Blockage of EIB has not been brash in patients who are accepting abiding FORADIL AEROLIZER administering alert circadian and these patients should not use added FORADIL AEROLIZER for blockage of EIB.
6. Patients should be abreast that appraisal with beta2-agonists may advance to adverse contest which accommodate palpitations, chest pain, accelerated affection rate, agitation or nervousness.
7. Patients should be abreast never to use FORADIL AEROLIZER with a spacer and never to breathe into the device.
8. Patients should abstain advertisement the FORADIL capsules to damp and should handle the capsules with dry hands. The AEROLIZER Inhaler should never be done and should be kept dry. The accommodating should consistently use the new AEROLIZER Inhaler that comes with anniversary refill.
9. Women should be brash to acquaintance their physician if they become abundant or if they are nursing.
10. Patients should be told that in attenuate cases, the gelatin abridged ability breach into babyish pieces. These pieces should be retained by the awning congenital into the AEROLIZER Inhaler. However, it charcoal accessible that rarely, tiny pieces of gelatin ability ability the aperture or throat afterwards inhalation. The abridged is beneath able to blast aback broken if: accumulator altitude are carefully followed, capsules are removed from the abscess anon afore use, and the capsules are abandoned broken once.
11. It is important that patients accept how to use the AEROLIZER Inhaler appropriately and how it should be acclimated in affiliation to added asthma medications they are demography (see the accompanying Medication Guide).
Drug Interactions
If added adrenergic drugs are to be administered by any route, they should be acclimated with absorption because the pharmacologically anticipated affectionate furnishings of formoterol may be potentiated.
Concomitant appraisal with xanthine derivatives, steroids, or diuretics may potentiate any hypokalemic aftereffect of adrenergic agonists.
The ECG changes and/or hypokalemia that may aftereffect from the administering of non-potassium sparing diuretics (such as bend or thiazide diuretics) can be acutely worsened by beta-agonists, abnormally aback the recommended dosage of the beta-agonist is exceeded. Although the analytic acceptation of these furnishings is not known, absorption is brash in the co-administration of beta-agonist with non-potassium sparing diuretics.
Formoterol, as with added beta2-agonists, should be administered with astute absorption to patients actuality brash with monamine oxidase inhibitors, tricyclic antidepressants, or drugs accustomed to prolong the QTc breach because the activity of adrenergic agonists on the cardiovascular arrangement may be potentiated by these agents. Drugs that are accustomed to prolong the QTc breach accept an added accident of ventricular arrhythmias.
Beta-adrenergic receptor antagonists (beta-blockers) and formoterol may arrest the aftereffect of anniversary added aback administered concurrently. Beta-blockers not abandoned block the ameliorative furnishings of beta2-agonists, such as formoterol, but may aftermath astringent bronchospasm in asthmatic patients. Therefore, patients with asthma should not frequently be brash with beta-blockers. However, beneath assertive circumstances, e.g., as prophylaxis afterwards myocardial infarction, there may be no able alternatives to the use of beta-blockers in patients with asthma. In this setting, cardioselective beta-blockers could be considered, although they should be administered with caution.
Carcinogenesis, Mutagenesis, Crime of Fertility
The baleful abeyant of formoterol fumarate has been evaluated in 2-year bubbler baptize and comestible studies in both rats and mice. In rats, the accident of ovarian leiomyomas was added at doses of 15 mg/kg and aloft in the bubbler baptize abstraction and at 20 mg/kg in the comestible study, but not at comestible doses up to 5 mg/kg (AUC acknowledgment about 450 times beastly acknowledgment at the best recommended circadian assimilation dose). In the comestible study, the accident of amiable ovarian theca-cell tumors was added at doses of 0.5 mg/kg and aloft (AUC acknowledgment at the low dosage of 0.5 mg/kg was about 45 times beastly acknowledgment at the best recommended circadian assimilation dose). This award was not empiric in the bubbler baptize study, nor was it apparent in mice (see below).
In mice, the accident of adrenal subcapsular adenomas and carcinomas was added in males at doses of 69 mg/kg and aloft in the bubbler baptize study, but not at doses up to 50 mg/kg (AUC acknowledgment about 590 times beastly acknowledgment at the best recommended circadian assimilation dose) in the comestible study. The accident of hepatocarcinomas was added in the comestible abstraction at doses of 20 and 50 mg/kg in females and 50 mg/kg in males, but not at doses up to 5 mg/kg in either males or females (AUC acknowledgment about 60 times beastly acknowledgment at the best recommended circadian assimilation dose). Additionally in the comestible study, the accident of uterine leiomyomas and leiomyosarcomas was added at doses of 2 mg/kg and aloft (AUC acknowledgment at the low dosage of 2 mg/kg was about 25 times beastly acknowledgment at the best recommended circadian assimilation dose). Increases in leiomyomas of the rodent changeable animal amplitude accept been analogously accustomed with added beta-agonist drugs.
Formoterol fumarate was not mutagenic or clastogenic in the afterward tests: mutagenicity tests in bacterial and beastly cells, chromosomal analyses in beastly cells, unscheduled DNA amalgam adjustment tests in rat hepatocytes and beastly fibroblasts, transformation appraisal in beastly fibroblasts and micronucleus tests in mice and rats.
Reproduction studies in rats appear no crime of abundance at articulate doses up to 3 mg/kg (approximately 1000 times the best recommended circadian assimilation dosage in bodies on a mg/m2 basis).
Pregnancy, Teratogenic Effects, Abundance Category C
Formoterol fumarate has been apparent to annual stillbirth and neonatal bloodshed at articulate doses of 6 mg/kg (approximately 2000 times the best recommended circadian assimilation dosage in bodies on a mg/m2 basis) and aloft in rats accepting the biologic during the backward date of pregnancy. These effects, however, were not produced at a dosage of 0.2 mg/kg (approximately 70 times the best recommended circadian assimilation dosage in bodies on a mg/m2 basis). Aback accustomed to rats throughout organogenesis, articulate doses of 0.2 mg/kg and aloft delayed ossification of the fetus, and doses of 6 mg/kg and aloft decreased fetal weight. Formoterol fumarate did not annual malformations in rats or rabbits afterward articulate administration. Because there are no able and well-controlled studies in abundant women, FORADIL AEROLIZER should be acclimated during abundance abandoned if the abeyant annual justifies the abeyant accident to the fetus.
Use in Activity and Delivery
Formoterol fumarate has been apparent to annual stillbirth and neonatal bloodshed at articulate doses of 6 mg/kg (approximately 2000 times the best recommended circadian assimilation dosage in bodies on a mg/m2 basis) and aloft in rats accepting the biologic for several canicule at the end of pregnancy. These furnishings were not produced at a dosage of 0.2 mg/kg (approximately 70 times the best recommended circadian assimilation dosage in bodies on a mg/m2 basis). There are no able and well-controlled beastly studies that accept brash the furnishings of FORADIL AEROLIZER during activity and delivery.
Because beta-agonists may potentially baffle with uterine contractility, FORADIL AEROLIZER should be acclimated during activity abandoned if the abeyant annual justifies the abeyant risk.
Nursing Mothers
In changeable studies in rats, formoterol was excreted in the milk. It is not accustomed whether formoterol is excreted in beastly milk, but because abounding drugs are excreted in beastly milk, absorption should be acclimatized if FORADIL AEROLIZER is administered to nursing women. There are no well-controlled beastly studies of the use of FORADIL AEROLIZER in nursing mothers.
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Pediatric Use
Asthma
A complete of 776 accouchement 5 years of age and earlier with asthma were brash in three multiple-dose controlled analytic trials. Of the 512 accouchement who accustomed formoterol, 508 were 5-12 years of age, and about one third were 5-8 years of age.
Exercise-Induced Bronchospasm
A complete of 25 pediatric patients, 4-11 years of age, were brash in two well-controlled single-dose analytic trials.
The assurance and capability of FORADIL AEROLIZER in pediatric patients beneath 5 years of age has not been established. (See CLINICAL TRIALS, Pediatric Asthma Trial, and ADVERSE REACTIONS, Acquaintance in Pediatric, Boyish and Developed Patients.)
Geriatric Use
Of the complete cardinal of patients who accustomed FORADIL AEROLIZER in boyish and developed abiding dosing asthma analytic trials, 318 were 65 years of age or earlier and 39 were 75 years of age and older. Of the 811 patients who accustomed FORADIL AEROLIZER in two cardinal multiple-dose controlled analytic studies in patients with COPD, 395 (48.7%) were 65 years of age or earlier while 62 (7.6%) were 75 years of age or older. No all-embracing differences in assurance or capability were empiric amid these capacity and boyish subjects. A hardly college abundance of chest infection was appear in the 39 asthma patients 75 years of age and older, although a causal accord with FORADIL has not been established. Added appear analytic acquaintance has not articular differences in responses amid the age-old and boyish developed patients, but greater acuteness of some earlier individuals cannot be disqualified out. (See PRECAUTIONS, Biologic Interactions.)
ADVERSE REACTIONS
Clinical trials with FORADIL AEROLIZER adapted a college accident of austere asthma exacerbations in patients who accustomed FORADIL AEROLIZER than in those who accustomed placebo.
Experience in Pediatric, Boyish and Developed Patients with Asthma
Of the 5,824 patients in multiple-dose controlled analytic trials, 1,985 were brash with FORADIL AEROLIZER at the recommended dosage of 12 mcg alert daily. The afterward table shows adverse contest breadth the abundance was greater than or according to 1% in the FORADIL alert circadian accession and breadth the ante in the FORADIL accession exceeded placebo. Three adverse contest showed dosage acclimation amid activated doses of 6, 12 and 24 mcg administered alert daily; tremor, blackout and dysphonia.
NUMBER AND FREQUENCY OF ADVERSE EXPERIENCES IN PATIENTS 5
YEARS OF AGE AND OLDER FROM MULTIPLE-DOSE
CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIALS
FORADIL AEROLIZER
12 mcg alert daily
In two 12-week controlled trials with accumulated acceptance of 1095 patients 12 years of age and older, FORADIL AEROLIZER 12 mcg alert circadian was compared to FORADIL AEROLIZER 24 mcg alert daily, albuterol 180 mcg four times daily, and placebo. Austere asthma exacerbations (acute deepening of asthma connected in hospitalization) occurred added frequently with FORADIL AEROLIZER 24 mcg alert circadian than with the recommended dosage of FORADIL AEROLIZER 12 mcg alert daily, albuterol, or placebo. The after-effects are apparent in the afterward table.
NUMBER AND FREQUENCY OF SERIOUS ASTHMA EXACERBATIONS IN
PATIENTS 12 YEARS OF AGE AND OLDER FROM TWO 12-WEEK
CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIALS
2 2 patients had respiratory arrest; 1 of the patients died
Experience in Accouchement with Asthma
The assurance of FORADIL AEROLIZER 12 mcg alert circadian compared to FORADIL AEROLIZER 24 mcg alert circadian and placebo was brash in one large, multicenter, randomized, double-blind, 52-week analytic balloon in 518 accouchement with asthma (ages 5-12 years) in charge of circadian bronchodilators and anti-inflammatory treatment. Added accouchement who accustomed FORADIL AEROLIZER 24 mcg alert circadian than accouchement who accustomed FORADIL AEROLIZER 12 mcg alert circadian or placebo able austere asthma exacerbations, as apparent in the abutting table.
NUMBER AND FREQUENCY OF SERIOUS ASTHMA EXACERBATIONS
IN PATIENTS 5-12 YEARS OF AGE FROM A 52-WEEK TRIAL
Foradil 12 mcg
twice daily
Foradil 24 mcg
twice daily
The numbers and percent of patients who appear adverse contest were commensurable in the 12 mcg alert circadian and placebo groups. In general, the arrangement of the adverse contest empiric in accouchement differed from the accepted arrangement apparent in adults. The adverse contest that were added common in the formoterol accession than in the placebo accession reflected infection/inflammation (viral infection, rhinitis, tonsillitis, gastroenteritis) or belly complaints (abdominal pain, nausea, dyspepsia).
Experience in Developed Patients with COPD
Of the 1634 patients in two cardinal multiple-dose Abiding Adverse Pulmonary Ache (COPD) controlled trials, 405 were brash with FORADIL AEROLIZER 12 mcg alert daily. The numbers and percent of patients who appear adverse contest were commensurable in the 12 mcg alert circadian and placebo groups. Adverse contest (AE's) able were agnate to those apparent in asthmatic patients, but with a college accident of COPD-related AE's in both placebo and formoterol brash patients.
The afterward table shows adverse contest breadth the abundance was greater than or according to 1% in the FORADIL AEROLIZER accession and breadth the ante in the FORADIL AEROLIZER accession exceeded placebo. The two analytic trials included doses of 12 mcg and 24 mcg, administered alert daily. Seven adverse contest showed dosage acclimation amid activated doses of 12 and 24 mcg administered alert daily; pharyngitis, fever, beef cramps, added sputum, dysphonia, myalgia, and tremor.
NUMBER AND FREQUENCY OF ADVERSE EXPERIENCES IN
ADULT COPD PATIENTS TREATED IN MULTIPLE-DOSE
CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIALS
FORADIL AEROLIZER
12 mcg alert daily
Overall, the abundance of all cardiovascular adverse contest in the two cardinal studies was low and commensurable to placebo (6.4% for FORADIL AEROLIZER 12 mcg alert daily, and 6.0% for placebo). There were no frequently-occurring specific cardiovascular adverse contest for FORADIL AEROLIZER (frequency greater than or according to 1% and greater than placebo).
Other adverse reactions to FORADIL AEROLIZER are agnate in attributes to added careful beta2-adrenoceptor agonists; e.g., angina, hypertension or hypotension, tachycardia, arrhythmias, nervousness, headache, tremor, dry mouth, palpitation, beef cramps, nausea, dizziness, fatigue, malaise, hypokalemia, hyperglycemia, metabolic acidosis and insomnia.
Post Business Experience
In all-encompassing common business acquaintance with FORADIL, austere exacerbations of asthma, including some that accept been fatal, accept been reported. While best of these cases accept been in patients with astringent or acutely breakable asthma (see WARNINGS), a few accept occurred in patients with beneath astringent asthma. It is not accessible to actuate from these abandoned case letters whether FORADIL AEROLIZER contributed to the events.
Rare letters of anaphylactic reactions, including astringent hypotension and angioedema, accept additionally been accustomed in affiliation with the use of formoterol fumarate assimilation powder.
DRUG ABUSE AND DEPENDENCE
There was no affirmation in analytic trials of biologic assurance with the use of FORADIL.
OVERDOSAGE
The accustomed signs and affection with overdosage of FORADIL AEROLIZER are those of boundless beta-adrenergic dispatch and/or accident or exaggeration of any of the signs and affection listed beneath ADVERSE REACTIONS, e.g., angina, hypertension or hypotension, tachycardia, with ante up to 200 beats/min., arrhythmias, nervousness, headache, tremor, seizures, beef cramps, dry mouth, palpitation, nausea, dizziness, fatigue, malaise, hypokalemia, hyperglycemia, and insomnia. Metabolic acidosis may additionally occur. As with all inhaled sympathomimetic medications, cardiac arrest and alike afterlife may be associated with an balance of FORADIL AEROLIZER.
Treatment of overdosage consists of abeyance of FORADIL AEROLIZER calm with academy of adapted adapted and/or admiring therapy. The accurate use of a cardioselective beta-receptor acquaintance may be considered, address in apperception that such medication can aftermath bronchospasm. There is bereft affirmation to actuate if dialysis is benign for overdosage of FORADIL AEROLIZER. Cardiac ecology is recommended in cases of overdosage.
The minimum astute baleful assimilation dosage of formoterol fumarate in rats is 156 mg/kg (approximately 53,000 and 25,000 times the best recommended circadian assimilation dosage in adults and children, respectively, on a mg/m2 basis). The average baleful articulate doses in Chinese hamsters, rats, and mice accommodate alike college multiples of the best recommended circadian assimilation dosage in humans.
DOSAGE AND ADMINISTRATION
FORADIL capsules should be administered abandoned by the articulate assimilation avenue and abandoned application the AEROLIZER Inhaler (see the accompanying Medication Guide). FORADIL capsules should not be ingested (i.e., swallowed) orally. FORADIL capsules should consistently be stored in the blister, and abandoned removed IMMEDIATELY BEFORE USE.
For Aliment Appraisal of Asthma
Long-acting beta2-adrenergic agonists may admission the accident of asthma-related afterlife (see WARNINGS). Therefore, aback alleviative patients with asthma, FORADIL AEROLIZER should abandoned be acclimated as added appraisal for patients not abundantly controlled on added asthma-controller medications (e.g., low- to medium-dose inhaled corticosteroids) or whose ache severity acutely warrants admission of appraisal with two aliment therapies, including FORADIL AEROLIZER. It is not adumbrated for patients whose asthma can be managed by casual use of inhaled, short-acting, beta2-agonists or for patients whose asthma can be auspiciously managed by inhaled corticosteroids or added ambassador medications forth with casual use of inhaled short-acting beta2-agonists.
For adults and accouchement 5 years of age and older, the accepted dosage is the assimilation of the capacity of one 12-mcg FORADIL abridged every 12 hours application the AEROLIZER Inhaler. The accommodating charge not breathe into the device. The complete circadian dosage of FORADIL should not beat one abridged alert circadian (24 mcg complete circadian dose). Added common administering or administering of a beyond cardinal of inhalations is not recommended. If affection appear amid doses, an inhaled short-acting beta2-agonist should be taken for actual relief.
If a ahead able dosage dieting fails to accommodate the accepted response, medical admonition should be accustomed anon as this is about a assurance of destabilization of asthma. Beneath these circumstances, the ameliorative dieting should be re-evaluated.
For Blockage of Exercise-Induced Bronchospasm (EIB)
For adults and accouchement 5 years of age or older, the accepted dosage is the assimilation of the capacity of one 12-mcg FORADIL abridged at atomic 15 annual afore exercise administered on an casual as bare basis. Aback acclimated intermittently as bare for prevention, aegis may aftermost up to 12 hours.
Additional doses of FORADIL AEROLIZER should not be acclimated for 12 hours afterwards the administering of this drug. Regular, twice-daily dosing has not been brash in preventing EIB. Patients who are accepting FORADIL AEROLIZER alert circadian for aliment appraisal of their asthma should not use added doses for blockage of EIB and may crave a short-acting bronchodilator.
For Aliment Appraisal of Abiding Adverse Pulmonary Ache (COPD)
The accepted dosage is the assimilation of the capacity of one 12 mcg FORADIL abridged every 12 hours application the AEROLIZER inhaler.
A complete circadian dosage of greater than 24 mcg is not recommended.
If a ahead able dosage dieting fails to accommodate the accepted response, medical admonition should be accustomed anon as this is about a assurance of destabilization of COPD. Beneath these circumstances, the ameliorative dieting should be re-evaluated and added ameliorative options should be considered.
HOW SUPPLIED
FORADIL AEROLIZER contains: aluminum blister-packaged 12-mcg FORADIL (formoterol fumarate) bright gelatin capsules with "CG" printed on one end and "FXF" printed on the adverse end; one AEROLIZER Inhaler; and Medication Guide.
Unit Dosage (blister pack)
Box of 12 (strips of 6). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . NDC 0085-1402-01
Unit Dosage (blister pack)
Box of 60 (strips of 6). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . NDC 0085-1401-01
FORADIL capsules should be acclimated with the AEROLIZER Inhaler only. The AEROLIZER Inhaler should not be acclimated with any added capsules.
Prior to dispensing: Abundance in a refrigerator, 2°C-8°C (36°F-46°F)
After dispensing to patient: Abundance at 20°C to 25°C (68°F to 77°F) [see USP Controlled Allowance Temperature]. Assure from calefaction and moisture. CAPSULES SHOULD ALWAYS BE STORED IN THE BLISTER AND ONLY REMOVED FROM THE BLISTER IMMEDIATELY BEFORE USE.
Always abandon the FORADIL capsules and AEROLIZER Inhaler by the "Use by" date and consistently use the new AEROLIZER Inhaler provided with anniversary new prescription.
Keep out of the ability of children.
REV: JUNE 2006
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SCHERING CORPORATION
Manufactured by:
Novartis Pharma AG, Basle, Switzerland
for
Schering Corporation, Kenilworth, NJ 07033
©2006 Novartis Pharmaceuticals Corporation. All rights reserved.
Medication Guide
Foradil® [FOR-a-dil] Aerolizer®
(formoterol fumarate assimilation powder)
Read the Medication Guide that comes with FORADIL AEROLIZER afore you alpha application it and anniversary time you get a refill. There may be new information. This Medication Guide does not booty the abode of talking to your bloom affliction provider about your medical activity or treatment.
What is the best important admonition I should apperceive about FORADIL AEROLIZER?
FORADIL AEROLIZER is a anesthetic alleged a long-acting beta2-agonist or LABA. LABA medicines are acclimated in patients with asthma, exercise-induced bronchospasm (EIB), and abiding adverse pulmonary ache (COPD). LABA medicines admonition the anatomy about the airways in your lungs breach airy to anticipate symptoms, such as asthmatic and conciseness of breath. These affection can appear aback the anatomy about the airways tighten. This makes it adamantine to breathe. In astringent cases, asthmatic can stop your animation and annual afterlife if not brash adapted away.
What is FORADIL AEROLIZER?
FORADIL AEROLIZER is a long-acting beta2-agonist (LABA). FORADIL AEROLIZER is acclimated for asthma, exercise-induced bronchospasm (EIB) and abiding adverse pulmonary ache (COPD) as follows:
Asthma
FORADIL AEROLIZER is acclimated long-term, twice-a-day, to ascendancy affection of asthma, and anticipate affection such as asthmatic in adults and accouchement ages 5 and older.
Because LABA medicines such as FORADIL AEROLIZER may admission the adventitious of afterlife from asthma problems, FORADIL AEROLIZER is not for adults and accouchement with asthma who:
Exercise-Induced Bronchospasm (EIB)
FORADIL AEROLIZER is acclimated for the blockage of asthmatic acquired by exercise in adults and accouchement 5 years of age and older.
Chronic Adverse Pulmonary Ache (COPD)
FORADIL AEROLIZER is acclimated long-term, twice-a-day, in authoritative affection of COPD and preventing asthmatic in adults with COPD.
What should I acquaint my healthcare provider afore application FORADIL AEROLIZER?
Tell your healthcare provider about all of your bloom conditions, including if you:
FORADIL AEROLIZER contains lactose (milk sugar) and a babyish bulk of milk proteins. It is accessible that allergic reactions may appear in patients who accept a astringent milk protein allergy.
Tell your healthcare provider about all the medicines you booty including decree and non-prescription medicines, vitamins, and herbal supplements. FORADIL AEROLIZER and assertive added medicines may collaborate with anniversary other. This may annual austere ancillary effects.
Know the medicines you take. Accumulate a account and appearance it to your healthcare provider and pharmacist anniversary time you get a new medicine.
How do I use FORADIL capsules with the Aerolizer inhaler?
See the step-by-step instructions for application FORADIL Capsules with the Aerolizer inhaler at the end of this Medication Guide. Do not use FORADIL unless your healthcare provider has accomplished you and you accept everything. Ask your healthcare provider or pharmacist if you accept any questions.
What are the accessible ancillary furnishings with FORADIL AEROLIZER?
Other accessible ancillary furnishings with FORADIL AEROLIZER include:
Tell your healthcare provider about any ancillary aftereffect that bothers you or that does not go away.
These are not all the ancillary furnishings with FORADIL AEROLIZER. Ask your healthcare provider or pharmacist for added information.
How do I abundance FORADIL AEROLIZER?
General Admonition about FORADIL AEROLIZER
Medicines are sometimes assigned for purposes not mentioned in a Medication Guide. Do not use FORADIL AEROLIZER for a activity for which it was not prescribed. Do not accord FORADIL AEROLIZER to added people, alike if they accept the aforementioned condition. It may abuse them.
This Medication Guide summarizes the best important admonition about FORADIL AEROLIZER. If you would like added information, allocution with your healthcare provider. You can ask your healthcare provider or pharmacist for admonition about FORADIL AEROLIZER that was accounting for healthcare professionals. If you accept any questions about the use of FORADIL AEROLIZER, go to www.foradil.us.
Instructions for Application FORADIL AEROLIZER
Do not absorb FORADIL capsules.
Follow the instructions beneath for application your FORADIL AEROLIZER. You will breathe-in (inhale) the anesthetic in the FORADIL capsules from the FORADIL AEROLIZER. If you accept any questions, ask your healthcare provider or pharmacist.
FORADIL AEROLIZER
(Graphic Omitted)
(Graphic Omitted)
2. A abject that allows the able absolution of anesthetic from the capsule
5. A button with “winglets” (projecting ancillary pieces) and pins on anniversary side
With anniversary new decree of FORADIL AEROLIZER or refill, your pharmacist should accept accounting the “Use by” date on the sticker on the alfresco of the FORADIL AEROLIZER box. Abolish the “Use by” sticker on the box and abode it on the AEROLIZER Inhaler awning that comes with FORADIL. If the sticker is blank, calculation 4 months from the date you got your FORADIL AEROLIZER from the pharmacy and address this date on the sticker. Also, analysis the cessation date formed on the box. If this date is beneath than 4 months from your acquirement date, address this date on the sticker.Do not use FORADIL capsules with any added abridged inhaler, and do not use the AEROLIZER inhaler to booty any added abridged medicine.
Taking a dosage of FORADIL AEROLIZER requires the afterward steps:
1. Accessible the antithesis accessory complete a abscess agenda of FORADIL capsules. Do not abolish a FORADIL abridged until you are accessible for a dose.
2. Cull off the AEROLIZER Inhaler cover. (Figure 1)
(Graphic Omitted)
3. Authority the abject of the AEROLIZER Inhaler durably and aberration the advocate in the administering of the arrow to open. (Figure 2) Advance the buttons in on anniversary ancillary to accomplish abiding that you can see 4 pins in the abridged able-bodied of the AEROLIZER Inhaler.
(Graphic Omitted)
4. Abstracted one FORADIL abridged abscess by disturbing at the pre-cut lines. (Figure 3)
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5. Peel the cardboard abetment that covers one FORADIL abridged on the abscess card. Advance the FORADIL abridged through the foil. (Figure 4)
(Graphic Omitted)
6. Abode the FORADIL abridged in the capsule-chamber in the abject of the AEROLIZER Inhaler. Never abode a abridged anon into the mouthpiece. (Figure 5)
(Graphic Omitted)
7. Aberration the advocate aback to the bankrupt position. (Figure 6)
(Graphic Omitted)
8. Authority the advocate of the AEROLIZER Inhaler cocked and columnist both buttons at the aforementioned time. Abandoned columnist the buttons ONCE. You should apprehend a bang as the FORADIL abridged is actuality pierced. (Figure 7)
(Graphic Omitted)
9. Absolution the buttons. If the buttons breach stuck, butt the wings on the buttons and cull them out of the ashore position afore the abutting step. Do not advance the buttons a added time. This may annual the FORADIL abridged to breach into babyish pieces. There is a awning congenital into the AEROLIZER Inhaler to authority these babyish pieces. It is accessible that tiny pieces of a FORADIL abridged ability ability your aperture or throat aback you drag the medicine. This will not abuse you, but to abstain this, abandoned bore the abridged once. The FORADIL capsules are additionally beneath able to breach into babyish pieces if you abundance them the adapted way (See “How do I abundance FORADIL AEROLIZER?”).
10. Breathe out (exhale) fully. Do not breathe into the AEROLIZER mouthpiece. (Figure 8)
(Graphic Omitted)
11. Tilt your arch aback slightly. Accumulate the AEROLIZER Inhaler level, with the dejected buttons to the larboard and adapted (not up and down). Abode the advocate in your aperture and abutting your aperture about the mouthpiece. (Figures 9 and 10)
(Graphic Omitted)
12. Breathe in bound and acutely (Figure 11). This will annual the FORADIL abridged to circuit about in the alcove and bear your dosage of medicine. You should apprehend a whirring babble and acquaintance a candied aftertaste in your mouth. If you do not apprehend the whirring noise, the abridged may be stuck. If this occurs, accessible the AEROLIZER Inhaler and alleviate the abridged acceptance it to circuit freely. Do not try to alleviate the abridged by astute the buttons again. (You will accept to echo accomplish 10 to 12 afresh to get your dose.)
(Graphic Omitted)
13. Abolish the AEROLIZER Inhaler from your mouth. Continue to authority your animation as connected as you can and afresh exhale.
14. Accessible the AEROLIZER Inhaler to see if any crumb is still in the capsule. If any crumb charcoal in the abridged echo accomplish 10 to 13. Best bodies are able to abandoned the abridged in one or two inhalations.
15. Afterwards use, accessible the AEROLIZER Inhaler, abolish and abandon the abandoned capsule. Do not leave a acclimated abridged in the chamber.
16. Abutting the advocate and alter the cover.
Remember:
Rx only
SCHERING CORPORATION
Manufactured by:
Novartis Pharma AG, Basle, Switzerland
for
Schering Corporation, Kenilworth, NJ 07033
FORADIL is a registered brand of Astellas Pharma Inc.
AEROLIZER is a registered brand of Novartis AG.
ADVAIR DISKUS, SEREVENT, and DISKUS are registered trademarks of GlaxoSmithKline.
©2006 Novartis Pharmaceuticals Corporation. All rights reserved.June 2006
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This Medication Guide has been accustomed by the U.S. Aliment and Biologic Administration.
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