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Galderma (U.K) Ltd

Meridien House, 69-71 Clarendon Road, Watford, Hertfordshire, WD17 1DS, UK
Telephone: +44 (0)1923 208950
Fax: +44 (0)1923 208998
Medical Information e-mail: info.uk@galderma.com

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Summary of Product Characteristics last updated on the eMC: 26/08/2010
SPC Azzalure

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Updated on 26/08/2010 and displayed until Current
Reasons for adding or updating:
  • Change to section 4.4 - Special warnings and precautions for Use
  • Change to section 4.8 - Undesirable Effects
Date of revision of text on the SPC:   05-May-2010
Legal Category:   POM
Black Triangle (CHM):   NO

Free-text change information supplied by the pharmaceutical company

Section 4.4: Removal of 

This product contains a small amount of human albumin. The risk of transmission of an infection cannot be excluded with absolute certainty following the use of blood products.

Section 4.8: Addition of
Adverse effects resulting from distribution of the effects of the toxin to sites remote from the site of injection have been very rarely reported with botulinum toxin (excessive muscle weakness, dysphagia, aspiration pneumonia with fatal outcome in some cases) (see section 4.4).

Updated on 06/07/2009 and displayed until 26/08/2010
Reasons for adding or updating:
  • New SPC for new product
Date of revision of text on the SPC:  
Legal Category:   POM
Black Triangle (CHM):   NO

Free-text change information supplied by the pharmaceutical company

None provided

Active Ingredients/Generics

 
   botulinum toxin type a