Treatment of vasomotor symptoms
View Patent ↗The invention relates to a method for the treatment of vasomotor symptoms comprising the administration of a therapeutically effective amount of flibanserin.
1. A method for the treatment of hot flashes or hot flushes comprising the administration to a patient in need of such treatment a therapeutically effective amount of flibanserin, or a pharmacologically acceptable acid addition salt, hydrate or solvate, thereof.
2. The method according to claim 1 , wherein the hot flashes or hot flushes are hot flashes or hot flushes associated with menopause.
3. The method according to claim 1 , wherein the hot flashes or hot flushes are hot flashes or hot flushes associated with surgically induced menopause.
4. The method according to claim 1 , wherein the hot flashes or hot flushes are hot flashes or hot flushes associated with iatrogenic induced menopause.
5. The method according to claim 1 , wherein the hot flashes or hot flushes are hot flashes or hot flushes associated with the use of medication, radiation, or chemotherapeutic agents.
6. The method according to claim 1 , wherein the hot flashes or hot flushes are moderate to severe hot flashes or hot flushes associated with a natural or iatrogenic hypogonadal state in men.
7. The method according to claim 6 , wherein the hot flashes or hot flushes are hot flashes or hot flushes associated with the use of medication, radiation, or chemotherapeutic agents.
8. The method according to claim 1 , wherein the flibanserin is administered as a pharmaceutically acceptable acid addition salt selected from the salts formed by succinic acid, hydrobromic acid, acetic acid, fumaric acid, maleic acid, methanesulphonic acid, lactic acid, phosphoric acid, hydrochloric acid, sulphuric acid, tartaric acid, citric acid, and mixtures thereof.
9. The method according to claim 1 , wherein the flibanserin is administered as flibanserin polymorph A.
10. The method according to claim 1 , wherein the patient is a menopausal woman.
11. The method according to claim 1 , wherein the patient is a postmenopausal woman.
12. The method according to claim 1 , wherein the patient is a perimenopausal woman.
13. The method according to claim 1 , wherein the patient is a natural or iatrogenic hypogonadal man.
14. The method according to claim 1 , wherein the flibanserin is administered in a dose range between 0.1 to 400 mg per day.
15. The method according to claim 1 , wherein the flibanserin is administered in a dose range between 1.0 to 300 mg per day.
16. The method according to claim 1 , wherein the flibanserin is administered in a dose range between 2 to 200 mg per day.
17. The method according to claim 1 , wherein the flibanserin is administered in a dose range between 0.01 to 100 mg per day.
18. The method according to claim 1 , wherein the flibanserin is administered in a dose range between 0.1 to 50 mg per day.