| SFDA Approved Use |
Posaconazole are indicated for use in the treatment of the following fungal infections in patients aged 13 and over:
- Invasive aspergillosis in patients with disease that is refractory to amphotericin B or itraconazole or in patients who are intolerant of these medicinal products; Posaconazole indicated for use in the treatment of the following fungal infections in patients aged 18 and over: - Fusariosis in patients with disease that is refractory to amphotericin B or in patients who are intolerant of amphotericin B; - Chromoblastomycosis and mycetoma in patients with disease that is refractory to itraconazole or in patients who are intolerant of itraconazole; - Coccidioidomycosis in patients with disease that is refractory to amphotericin B, itraconazole or fluconazole or in patients who are intolerant of these medicinal products. Refractoriness is defined as progression of infection or failure to improve after a minimum of 7 days of prior therapeutic doses of effective antifungal therapy. Posaconazole are also indicated for prophylaxis of invasive fungal infections in the following patients aged 13 and over: - Patients receiving remission-induction chemotherapy for acute myelogenous leukemia (AML) or myelodysplastic syndromes (MDS) expected to result in prolonged neutropenia and who are at high risk of developing invasive fungal infections; - Hematopoietic stem cell transplant (HSCT) recipients who are undergoing high-dose immunosuppressive therapy for graft versus host disease and who are at high risk of developing invasive fungal infection |
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