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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 28, 2017
Filed:
Jun. 23, 2015
Laboratorios Leon Farma SA, Navatejera Villaquilambre, ES;
Philippe Perrin, Paris, FR;
Dominique Drouin, Verrieres, FR;
Cécile Boyer-Joubert, Fontenay aux Roses, FR;
LABORATORIOS LEON FARMA SA, Navatejera Villaquilambre, ES;
Abstract
A pharmaceutical composition comprising an active contraceptive drug and one or more pharmaceutically-acceptable excipients. The pharmaceutical composition, when subjected to an in vitro dissolution test according to the USP XXIII Paddle Method, results in no more than 50% of said active drug initially present being dissolved within 30 minutes, and at least 50% of the active drug being dissolved in a time range from about 3 hours to about 4 hours. The pharmaceutical composition is administered daily to a patient having a BMI of about 25 kg/mor more for at least a portion of a treatment cycle. The pharmaceutical composition does not cause a number of days of bleeding events in the patient exceeding an average of 15% per treatment cycle in consecutive treatment cycles of administration after an initial treatment cycle of administration.