Back to results
US 7,683,047 B2Granted
Treatment of conditions relating to hormone deficiencies by administration of progestins
AssigneeBarr Laboratories, Inc.
InventorThomas W. Leonard
Life of this patent
Estimating the term…
Abstract
The present invention includes methods for preventing endometrial hyperplasia associated with estrogen therapy through the administration of a progestin agent. The methods presented may include starting the administration of a progestin agent at a high dose, and then lowering the dose.
Claims9
A method of treating endometrial hyperplasia in a subject, said method comprising:
- administering continuously and uninterruptedly for a first predetermined time period a first dose of a progestin agent to said subject;
- and
- administering continuously and uninterruptedly for a second predetermined time period a second dose of a progestin agent to said subject.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.