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Cresemba
BY: Olive TseJun 15, 2020

Cresemba

(isavuconazole) Pfizer

 

Composition:

  • Available in vial with each contains 200 mg isavuconazole powder for concentrate for solution for infusion (as 372.6 mg isavuconazonium sulfate); or in capsule with each contains 100 mg isavuconazole (as 186.3 mg isavuconazonium sulfate)
     

Indication:

  • For the treatment of adult patients with:
  • invasive aspergillosis; or
  • mucormycosis for whom amphotericin B is inappropriate

 

Drug information including formulation, indication, administration and/or presentation updated, registered or launched in Hong Kong within one year prior to the date written is regarded as new in The Pace.

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