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• This invention relates to a new use of darifenacin, and its pharmaceutically acceptable derivatives.
• Darifenacin is (S)-2- ⁇ 1-[2-(2,3-dihydrobenzofuran-5-yl)ethyl]-3-pyrrolidinyl ⁇ -2,2-diphenyl-acetamide and is disclosed in European Patent No 0388054, Examples 1B and 8. It is referred to therein as 3-(S)-( ⁇ )-(1-carbamoyl-1,1-diphenylmethyl)-1-[2-(2,3-dihydro-benzofuran-5-yl)ethyl]pyrrolidine. It is indicated in the treatment of urinary incontinence and irritable bowel syndrome and has the following structure:
• overactive bladder The symptoms of overactive bladder (OAB) include urinary frequency and urgency, with or without incontinence in the absence of local pathological or systemic condition. Urgency is described in the draft ICS Terminology Report [Terminology Report of the International Continence Society; Draft 6, Aug. 15, 2001] as the sudden compelling desire to pass urine, which is difficult to control.
• OAB Wet and OAB Dry have been proposed to describe OAB patients with or without incontinence respectively.
• Overall prevalence of OAB Wet and Dry is similar in men and women with a prevalence rate in the US of 16.6% [Stewart et al, Prevalence of Overactive Bladder in the United States: Results from the NOBLE Program; Abstract Presented at the 2 nd International Consultation on Incontinence, July 2001, Paris, France].
• the cardinal symptom of OAB was believed to be incontinence.
• this is clearly not meaningful for the large number of sufferers who are not incontinent (i.e. OAB Dry patients).
• darifenacin and its pharmaceutically acceptable derivatives, is useful in the reduction of urgency in patients suffering from overactive bladder.
• darifenacin or a pharmaceutically acceptable derivative thereof, in the manufacture of a medicament for the reduction of urgency in patients suffering from overactive bladder (OAB).
• compositions of darifenacin include solvates and salts, particularly acid addition salts such as the hydrobromide salt.
• the patients to be treated may be suffering from wet overactive bladder (OAB Wet) or dry overactive bladder (OAB Dry).
• the darifenacin, or a pharmaceutically acceptable derivative thereof can be administered alone or in any convenient pharmaceutical presentation, including those mentioned in European Patent No 388054. Oral administration is preferred.
• a suitable dosage of darifenacin, or of the active darifenacin moiety in a pharmaceutically acceptable derivative thereof, for a 70 kg person is in the range 3.75-40 mg daily, for example 7.5-30 mg daily.
• the dosage may be administered in, say, 3 divided doses or in a single controlled release formulation.
• the darifenacin, or a pharmaceutically acceptable derivative thereof is administered in a dosage form that is adapted to release at least 10% of the darifenacin, or a pharmaceutically acceptable derivative thereof, in the lower gastrointestinal tract of the patient.
• a dosage form that is adapted to release at least 10% of the darifenacin, or a pharmaceutically acceptable derivative thereof, in the lower gastrointestinal tract of the patient.
• Such formulations are described in U.S. Pat. No. 6,106,864 (the teaching of which is incorporated herein by reference).
• the preferred such formulation is a slow release matrix tablet (see particularly Example 3 of U.S. Pat. No. 6,106,864).
• the invention further provides darifenacin, or a pharmaceutically acceptable derivative thereof, for use in the reduction of urgency in patients suffering from overactive bladder.
• the invention further provides a method of reducing urgency in patients suffering from overactive bladder, which comprises administering darifenacin, or a pharmaceutically acceptable derivative thereof, to a patient in need of such treatment.
• darifenacin was administered as its hydrobromide salt. It was presented in slow release matrix tablets of the type described in U.S. Pat. No. 6,106,864, particularly Example 3. Tablets were administered once daily (o.d.).
• VAS visual analogue scale
• Darifenacin as hydrobromide salt; 7.5 mg, 15 mg and 30 mg of the active moiety, o.d.
• placebo were evaluated in subjects with a diagnosis of overactive bladder in a multicentre trial and symptoms of urgency were assessed using the VAS at baseline and at the end of the study (12 weeks of treatment).
• Darifenacin (7.5-30 mg) produced a dose-related reduction in both the number of episodes of urgency and the overall severity of urgency experienced by the OAB subject in the clinical study. The effect was significantly greater than that produced by placebo.
• the data is presented below in Table 1 and 2.
• This study used a novel method for measuring the time between the first onset of the urgency and the need to micturate, which is known as the ‘warning time’.
• a modified stop-watch was used which required the subject to press a button at the onset of urge and a second button when they felt they needed to micturate.
• Darifenacin (as the hydrobromide salt; 30 mg o.d.) and placebo were evaluated in subjects with symptoms of urgency. The subjects were a mixture of OAB Wet and OAB Dry sufferers. The ‘warning time’ was assessed at baseline and following 2 weeks of treatment using the modified stop watch.

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