Source: European Medicines Agency (EU) Revision Year: 2020 Publisher: Novartis Europharm Limited, Vista Building, Elm Park, Merrion Road, Dublin 4, Ireland
Lucentis 10 mg/ml solution for injection.
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Solution for injection. Clear, colourless to pale yellow aqueous solution. |
One ml contains 10 mg ranibizumab*. Each vial contains 2.3 mg of ranibizumab in 0.23 ml solution. This provides a usable amount to deliver a single dose of 0.05 ml containing 0.5 mg ranibizumab to adult patients and a single dose of 0.02 ml containing 0.2 mg ranibizumab to preterm infants.
* Ranibizumab is a humanised monoclonal antibody fragment produced in Escherichia coli cells by recombinant DNA technology.
For the full list of excipients, see section 6.1.
| Active Ingredient | Description | |
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| Ranibizumab |
Ranibizumab is a humanised recombinant monoclonal antibody fragment targeted against human vascular endothelial growth factor A (VEGF-A). It binds with high affinity to the VEGF-A isoforms, thereby preventing binding of VEGF-A to its receptors VEGFR-1 and VEGFR-2. Binding of VEGF-A to its receptors leads to endothelial cell proliferation and neovascularisation, as well as vascular leakage, all of which are thought to contribute to the progression of the neovascular form of age-related macular degeneration, pathologic myopia and CNV or to visual impairment caused by either diabetic macular oedema or macular oedema secondary to RVO in adults and retinopathy of prematurity in preterm infants. |
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α,α-trehalose dihydrate |
Vial-only pack: One vial (type I glass) with a stopper (chlorobutyl rubber) containing 0.23 ml sterile solution.
Vial + filter needle pack: One vial (type I glass) with a stopper (chlorobutyl rubber) containing 0.23 ml sterile solution and 1 blunt filter needle (18G x 11⁄2′′, 1.2 mm x 40 mm, 5 μm).
Not all pack sizes may be marketed.
Novartis Europharm Limited, Vista Building, Elm Park, Merrion Road, Dublin 4, Ireland
EU/1/06/374/002
EU/1/06/374/004
Date of first authorisation: 22 January 2007
Date of latest renewal: 11 November 2016
| Drug | Countries | |
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| LUCENTIS | Austria, Australia, Brazil, Canada, Cyprus, Ecuador, Estonia, Spain, Finland, France, Hong Kong, Croatia, Ireland, Israel, Italy, Japan, Lithuania, Netherlands, New Zealand, Poland, Romania, Singapore, Tunisia, Turkey, United Kingdom, United States, South Africa |
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