Chiesi Farmaceutici S.p.a.

John Nicholas Staniforth

Gaetano Brambilla

Rossella Musa

Rajbir Gill

Lorenzo Ferrarini

David Alexander Vodden Morton

The invention provides a formulation to be administered as a dry powder for inhalation suitable for efficacious delivery of active ingredients into the low respiratory tract of patients suffering from a pulmonary disease such as asthma. In particular, the invention provides a formulation to be administered as dry powder for inhalation freely flowable, which can be produced in a simple way, is physically and chemically stable and capable of delivering both accurate doses and high fine particle fraction of low strength active ingredients by using a high- or medium resistance device.

Pharmaceutical formulations for dry powder inhalers in the form of hard-pellets

The invention provides a formulation to be administered as dry powder for inhalation suitable for efficacious delivery of active ingredients into the low respiratory tract of patients suffering of pulmonary diseases such as asthma. In particular, the invention provides a formulation to be administered as dry powder for inhalation freely flowable, which can be produced in a simple way, physically and chemically stable and able of delivering either accurate doses and high fine particle fraction of low strength active ingredients by using a high- or medium resistance device.

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Parma, Italy

John Nicholas Staniforth