Vaginal delivery for physiologic follicular-luteal steroid treatment
First Claim
1. A method of regulation of the menstrual cycle in which effective dosages of pharmacologically active steroid compositions selected from the group of estrogenic active steroids and progestational active steroids are administered in a temporal succession in a correspondence with a first follicular phase and a following luteal phase in an approximately 28 day menstrual cycle, in which, dosage of the follicular phase is dependent upon the presenting endogenous estrogen characteristic of the patient, and the luteal phase includes:
- a vaginal delivery system which provides effective concurrent dosages of (1) a pharmacologically active steroid selected from the group of estrogen active steroids and (2) a pharmacologically active steroid selected from the group of progestational active steroids, administered together, for a finite period of time of approximately 14 days during the luteal phase of the drug administration cycle, whereby predictable physiologic levels of activity of each steroid administered are provided during the luteal phase of the drug administration cycle.
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Abstract
A vaginal delivery system which provides an effective concurrent dosage of combined exogenous estrogenic active steroid and exogenous progestational active steroid during the corpus luteum phase of a follicular-luteal drug administration cycle to provide predictable physiologic levels of such steroids for the finite period of time of the corpus luteum phase of the drug administration cycle.
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1. A method of regulation of the menstrual cycle in which effective dosages of pharmacologically active steroid compositions selected from the group of estrogenic active steroids and progestational active steroids are administered in a temporal succession in a correspondence with a first follicular phase and a following luteal phase in an approximately 28 day menstrual cycle, in which, dosage of the follicular phase is dependent upon the presenting endogenous estrogen characteristic of the patient, and the luteal phase includes:
a vaginal delivery system which provides effective concurrent dosages of (1) a pharmacologically active steroid selected from the group of estrogen active steroids and (2) a pharmacologically active steroid selected from the group of progestational active steroids, administered together, for a finite period of time of approximately 14 days during the luteal phase of the drug administration cycle, whereby predictable physiologic levels of activity of each steroid administered are provided during the luteal phase of the drug administration cycle. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 12, 13, 14, 15)
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6. A vaginal delivery system for providing pharmacologically active exogenous steroids with respect to a predetermined first follicular phase and a following luteal phase according to a temporal relationship in a single menstrual cycle having a duration of approximately 28 days in which
a first steroid, having one of (1) estrogenic activity and (2) progestational activity, is administered, beginning with the later part of the follicular phase, for a period of about 21 days during the menstrual cycle; - and for the last approximately 14 days of the 21 day administration of the first steroid, a second steroid, having the other of (1) estrogenic activity and (2) progestational activity, is concurrently administered therewith during the luteal phase.
- View Dependent Claims (7, 8, 9, 10, 11)
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