PHARMACEUTICAL COMPOSITIONS CONTAINING PENTAMIDINE

摘要

Pharmaceutical compositions suitable for administration by inhalation and containing pentamidine, or pharmaceutically acceptable salt thereof, in powder form. Such compositions include pressurised aerosol compositions and non-pressurised powder compositions. Also described is finely divided powdered pentamidine with a mass median diameter in the range 0.01 to 10 microns and a method for the prevention or treatment of pneumo-cystis carinii pneumonia which comprises administration by inhalation to a patient having or susceptible to that condition of a therapeutically effective quantity of pentamidine, or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt thereof, in powder form.