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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 09, 1993
Filed:
Jul. 29, 1992
Applicant:
Inventors:
Robert T Sims, Holicong, PA (US);
Thomas N Gates, Doylestown, PA (US);
William Slivka, Philadelphia, PA (US);
Assignee:
Merck & Co., Inc., Rahway, NJ (US);
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
A61K / ; A61K / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
514570 ; 514646 ;
Abstract
This invention relates to pharmaceutical compositions for use in the treatment of pain and inflammation and the treatment of muscle spasms and associated pain, soreness and tightness of muscles in mammalian organism, said composition comprising: (i) an analgesically and anti-inflammatory effective amount of (S)-ibuprofen, or a salt thereof, substantially free of (R)-ibuprofen; and (ii) an amount effective in the treatment of muscle spasms of at least one of the muscle relaxants, or a therapeutically active stereoisomer thereof, substantially free of its other stereoisomers.