Ribavirin BioPartners
ribavirin
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Overview
The marketing authorisation for Ribavirin BioPartners has lapsed because it has not been marketed in the European Union in the three years following the granting of this authorisation.
Authorisation details
| Product details | |
|---|---|
| Name |
Ribavirin BioPartners
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| Agency product number |
EMEA/H/C/001184
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| Active substance |
Ribavirin
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| International non-proprietary name (INN) or common name |
ribavirin
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| Therapeutic area (MeSH) |
Hepatitis C, Chronic
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| Anatomical therapeutic chemical (ATC) code |
J05AB04
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Generic |
This is a generic medicine, which is developed to be the same as a medicine that has already been authorised, called the reference medicine. A generic medicine contains the same active substance(s) as the reference medicine, and is used at the same dose(s) to treat the same disease(s). For more information, see Generic and hybrid medicines. |
| Publication details | |
|---|---|
| Marketing-authorisation holder |
BioPartners GmbH
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| Revision |
2
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| Date of issue of marketing authorisation valid throughout the European Union |
06/04/2010
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| Contact address |
Kaiserpassage 11
D-72764 Reutlingen Germany |
Product information
21/11/2012 Ribavirin BioPartners - EMEA/H/C/001184 - IB/0003/G
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Product information documents contain:
- summary of product characteristics (annex I);
- manufacturing authorisation holder responsible for batch release (annex IIA);
- conditions of the marketing authorisation (annex IIB);
- labelling (annex IIIA);
- package leaflet (annex IIIB).
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Pharmacotherapeutic group
Antivirals for systemic use
Therapeutic indication
Ribavirin BioPartners is indicated for the treatment of chronic hepatitis-C-virus (HCV) infection in adults, children three years of age and older and adolescents and must only be used as part of a combination regimen with interferon alfa-2b. Ribavirin monotherapy must not be used. There is no safety or efficacy information on the use of ribavirin with other forms of interferon (i.e. not alfa-2b).
Naïve patients
Adult patients
Ribavirin BioPartners is indicated, in combination with interferon alfa-2b, for the treatment of adult patients with all types of chronic hepatitis C except genotype 1, not previously treated, without liver decompensation, with elevated alanine aminotransferase (ALT), who are positive for hepatitis C viral ribonucleic acid (HCV-RNA) (see section 4.4)
Children three years of age and older and adolescents
Ribavirin BioPartners is intended for use, in a combination regimen with interferon alfa-2b, for the treatment of children three years of age and older and adolescents, who have all types of chronic hepatitis C except genotype 1, not previously treated, without liver decompensation, and who are positive for HCV-RNA.
When deciding to not to defer treatment until adulthood, it is important to consider that the combination therapy induced a growth inhibition. The reversibility of growth inhibition is uncertain. The decision to treat should be made on a case by case basis (see section 4.4).
Previous-treatment-failure patients
Adult patients
Ribavirin BioPartners is indicated, in combination with interferon alfa-2b, for the treatment of adult patients with chronic hepatitis C who have previously responded (with normalisation of ALT at the end of treatment) to interferon alfa monotherapy but who have subsequently relapsed (see section 5.1).