FIELD: medicine, pharmaceutics.
SUBSTANCE: claim describes prolonged release formulations containing an active ingredient presented by octreotide or its pharmaceutically acceptable salt and three various linear polymers of poly(lactide-co-glycolic acid) (PLGA). The first PLGA has the lactide:glycolic acid relation of 65:35; the second PLGA has the lactide:glycolic acid relation of 75:25; the third PLGA has the lactide:glycolic acid relation of 85:15. The octrotide composition containing three various linear polymers of PLGA is characterized by the plasma octreotide concentration of low variability over the period of time making more than three months.
EFFECT: composition is applicable for the prolonged supporting therapy of the patients suffering acromegalia and for treating diarrhoea and congestions associated with malignant carcinoids and tumours producing vasoactive intestinal peptides (VIPoma-like tumours).
18 cl, 4 tbl, 5 ex
