Lupin gets USFDA nod for potassium deficiency treatment drug
Pharma major Lupin’s US arm Gavis Pharmaceuticals LLC has received final approval from the USFDA for its generic version of Upsher-Smith Labs’ Klor-Con tablets used for treating potassium deficiency in blood.
The approval by the US health regulator for potassium chloride extended-release tablets USP are for multiple strengths of 8 mEq (600 mg) and 10 mEq (750 mg), Lupin said in a statement.
The tablets, which is an electrolyte, is used in treatment of patients with hypokalemia (potassium deficiency), with or without metabolic alkalosis; in digitalis intoxication and in patients with hypokalemic familial periodic paralysis.
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