Here is the detailed information for Leuprolide Acetate Powder for Injection 11.25 mg in your requested format:
💉 Leuprolide Acetate – Powder for Injection 11.25 mg
🔹 Description:
Leuprolide acetate is a long-acting synthetic gonadotropin-releasing hormone (GnRH) agonist used to suppress hormone production in hormone-sensitive conditions.
🔬 Nature / Drug Class:
- Nature: Synthetic peptide hormone (long-acting)
- Drug Class: GnRH agonist / LHRH analog
🎯 Purpose / Indications:
- Advanced prostate cancer (palliative)
- Endometriosis
- Uterine fibroids (preoperative or symptomatic control)
- Central precocious puberty (CPP)
- Off-label: breast cancer, infertility protocols
✅ Advantages:
- Three-month depot formulation — reduced injection frequency
- Continuous hormone suppression without daily dosing
- Reduces tumor growth or symptom severity in hormone-driven diseases
- Improves patient compliance
📦 Common Packaging:
- Vial containing 11.25 mg sterile lyophilized powder
- Comes with sterile diluent (pre-filled syringe or ampoule)
- Administered via intramuscular (IM) injection
⚠️ Patient Advice / Precautions:
- Initial hormonal flare may worsen symptoms temporarily
- Monitor bone density with long-term use (risk of osteoporosis)
- Contraindicated in pregnancy and breastfeeding
- Use with caution in patients with cardiovascular disease or diabetes
- Injection should be given under medical supervision
- Ensure reconstitution guidelines are followed properly