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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 09, 1999
Filed:
Mar. 05, 1997
Applicant:
Inventors:
Assignee:
Mitsubishi Chemical Corporation, Tokyo, JP;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
A61K / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
424 781 ;
Abstract
A medicament for preventive and/or therapeutic treatment of hyperphosphatemia which comprises a pharmaceutically acceptable anion exchange resin such as a 2-methylimidazole/epichlorohydrin copolymer, cholestyramine resin, or colestipol. The medicament is orally available and has lowering effect on blood phosphate concentration and reducing effect on urinary phosphate excretion, and is useful for the treatment of conditions caused by hyperphosphatemia including renal dysfunction and the like.