Patent ID: 7977045
Filing Date: 2011-07-12
Classification: A61K,A61P,B05B,Y10S

Abstract:
1. A method for applying solid particles of a medicament to the mucosal surfaces of the nasal cavities comprising spraying a dose of an aqueous pharmaceutical composition containing said medicament into each of the nasal cavities, said dose containing a pharmaceutically effective amount of said medicament, said composition including also a suspending agent in an amount which is effective in maintaining said particles dispersed uniformly in the composition and in imparting to the composition a shear viscosity such that pharmaceutically effective amounts of the medicament are deposited on each of the mucosal surfaces of the anterior regions of the nose, the frontal sinus and the maxillary sinuses and on each of the mucosal surfaces which overlie the turbinates covering the conchas and a setting viscosity such that portions of said amounts are retained on each of said mucosal surfaces for at least about an hour, said medicament consisting essentially of triamcinolone acetonide.