Avandia

rosiglitazone

The marketing authorisation for Avandia has been suspended at the recommendation of the Agency’s Committee for Medicinal Products for Human Use (CHMP).

This EPAR was last updated on 17/01/2011 .

More detail is available in the summary of product characteristics

Product details

Publication details

Product information

03/12/2010  Avandia -EMEA/H/C/000268 -A20/0075

Contents

• Annex I - Summary of product characteristics
• Annex IIA - Manufacturing-authorisation holder responsible for batch release
• Annex IIB - Conditions of the marketing authorisation
• Annex IIIA - Labelling
• Annex IIIB - Package leaflet

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Pharmacotherapeutic group

Drugs used in diabetes

Therapeutic indication

Rosiglitazone is indicated in the treatment of type 2 diabetes mellitus:

as monotherapy
-in patients (particularly overweight patients) inadequately controlled by diet and exercise for whom metformin is inappropriate because of contraindications or intolerance

as dual oral therapy in combination with
-metformin, in patients (particularly overweight patients) with insufficient glycaemic control despite maximal tolerated dose of monotherapy with metformin
-a sulphonylurea, only in patients who show intolerance to metformin or for whom metformin is contraindicated, with insufficient glycaemic control despite monotherapy with a sulphonylurea

as triple oral therapy in combination with
-metformin and a sulphonylurea, in patients (particularly overweight patients) with insufficient glycaemic control despite dual oral therapy (see section 4.4).

Changes since initial authorisation of medicine

Initial marketing-authorisation documents