Aurobindo Pharma Ltd has received the final approval from the US Food and& Drug Administration (USFDA) to manufacture and market ‘potassium chloride extended-release’ tablets.

The tablets are a generic version of Upsher-Smith’s Klor-Con extended release tablets. The product will be launched in January 2019. Potassium chloride tablets are indicated for the treatment of hypokalemia, with or without metabolic alkalosis, in digitalis intoxication, and in hypokalemic familial periodic paralysis.

The approved product had an estimated market size of about $ 60 million in the 12- month period ended October 2018, according to IQVIA.

 

 

 

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