Abstract: Derivatives of biliary acids having formula I ##STR1## wherein St has the meaning of the 17-etiocholanyl residue, having two or more hydroxyl groups both in the .alpha. and .beta. conformation, some of which being optionally replaced by keto groups, and their pharmaceutically acceptable salts with alkaline or alkali-earth metals, or with organic bases.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
July 22, 1983
Date of Patent:
April 30, 1985
Assignee:
Lehner AG
Inventors:
Virginio Castagnola, Giuliano E. Frigerio, Roberto Pellicciari
Abstract: The present invention relates to a composition for oral use containing a bile acid as active principle, particularly suitable for the lysis of calculi of cholesterol origin, characterized in that it is in such a form as to yield up its active principle over a prolonged time period and is administered in a daily dose to be consumed in one taking.
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