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Last Updated: April 26, 2024

Claims for Patent: 5,462,932

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Summary for Patent: 5,462,932

Title:	Oral liquid alendronate formulations
Abstract:	Disclosed is a therapy protocol for treating and for preventing bone loss in patients who have difficulty in swallowing by administering a liquid formulation of alendronate which can be easily swallowed. Also described are pharmaceutical dosage forms of a syrup, aqueous solution, a solution formed from a reconstituted powder, of alendronate, for carrying out the therapeutic method.
Inventor(s):	Brenner; Gerald S. (Norristown, PA), Katdare; Ashok V. (Norristown, PA), Pretzer; Denise (Chesterfield, MO), Whiteford; Donna T. (Brooklyn, NY)
Assignee:	Merck & Co., Inc. (Rahway, NJ)
Application Number:	08/245,289
Patent Claims:	1. A pharmaceutical composition comprising a pharmaceutically effective amount of alendronate, in a pharmaceutically acceptable carrier and a sufficient amount of a buffer to maintain a pH of the composition in the range of 2 to 8 and complexing agent to prevent the precipitation of alendronate in aqueous solution. 2. The pharmaceutical composition of claim 2 being a liquid. 3. The pharmaceutical composition of claim 3, wherein said liquid is a syrup. 4. The pharmaceutical composition of claim 2, wherein said liquid is an aqueous solution. 5. The pharmaceutical composition of claim 1 being a powder for reconstitution. 6. The pharmaceutical composition of claim 5 dissolved in water. 7. The pharmaceutical composition of claim 1 wherein said alendronate is present in the amount of 0.0005 to 0.5 grams per gram of composition. 8. The pharmaceutical composition of claim 1 wherein said pharmaceutically acceptable excipient is purified water. 9. The pharmaceutical composition of claim 1 wherein said buffer is sodium citrate/citric acid, potassium hydrogen tartrate, sodium hydrogen tartrate, potassium dihydrogen phosphate, and disodium hydrogen phosphate. 10. The pharmaceutical composition of claim 1 wherein said buffer is present in an amount of 0.5 to 50 to 1 mole ratio of buffer:alendronate. 11. The pharmaceutical composition of claim 1 wherein said complexing agent is EDTA. 12. The pharmaceutical composition of claim 11 wherein said EDTA is present at a ratio of 0.005-2:1 parts by weight per part of alendronate by weight. 13. The pharmaceutical composition of claim 1 wherein said pH is in the range of 4-6. 14. The pharmaceutical composition of claim 1 being a syrup of the following formula: 15. The pharmaceutical composition of claim 14 being a syrup of the following formula: 16. The pharmaceutical composition of claim 1 being an aqueous solution of the following formula: 17. The pharmaceutical composition of claim 16 having the formula: 18. The pharmaceutical composition of claim 1 being a powder for reconstitution of the following formula: 19. A method for treating and/or preventing bone loss in a subject who has difficulty in swallowing, comprising administering a pharmaceutically effective dose of an oral liquid containing the alendronate pharmaceutical composition as defined in claim 1. 20. The method of claim 19, wherein said subject is human. 21. The method of claim 19, wherein the bone loss is osteoporosis-related, due to disuse, age-related, related to steroid therapy, rheumatoid-related, related to Paget's disease, or related to cancer. 22. The method of claim 19, wherein the treatment is prophylactic. 23. The method of claim 19, wherein said liquid is a syrup. 24. The method of claim 19, wherein said liquid is an aqueous solution. 25. The method of claim 19, wherein said liquid is an aqueous solution formed from a powder for reconstitution.

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