Discussion of interesting or befuddling cases related to pulmonary and critical care medicine.
Wednesday, August 10, 2005
New ICS
Has anybody used or had any experience with the new mometasone inhaler (Asmanex)? It comes in an auto-haler similar to Pulmicort but it has a counter which is a nice improvement over Pulmicort.
I did not know that it was on the market as of yet. It actually may be an improvement over pulmicort because of the inhaler. The company is also trying to combine it with foradil to create a drug to directly compete with advair.
There is a trial in the Journal of Allery and Clin Immunol from a couple years ago and it seems to be comparable to budesonide or fluticasone (Fish et al J Allergy Clin Immunol. 2000 Nov;106(5):852-60)
Never seen it.
ReplyDeleteI did not know that it was on the market as of yet. It actually may be an improvement over pulmicort because of the inhaler.
ReplyDeleteThe company is also trying to combine it with foradil to create a drug to directly compete with advair.
I am in wholeheardted agreement with Jeffh.
ReplyDeleteThey have the Formoterol/Budesonide combo in Canada so they may eventually get it here.
ReplyDeleteThere is a trial in the Journal of Allery and Clin Immunol from a couple years ago and it seems to be comparable to budesonide or fluticasone (Fish et al J Allergy Clin Immunol. 2000 Nov;106(5):852-60)
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