Abstract: The present invention relates to multi-unitary pharmaceutical preparations containing piroxicam for oral administration. Such pharmaceutical preparations are stable pellet pharmaceutical preparations containing piroxicam and they comprise an amount of active ingredient of between 5 and 50 mg, an inert core with spherical symmetry and a diameter of 600-850 &mgr;m, constituted by inert excipients, coated with an active layer containing piroxicam in micronized form and various pharmaceutically acceptable inert excipients, mixed in appropriate proportions in order to allow the adequate disaggregation of the formulations and dissolution of the active ingredient, coated in it turn with an insulating layer of a polymeric nature and soluble in water, this layer being coated finally with a gastroresistant or enteric layer of a minimum thickness of 20 &mgr;m. This invention also refers to the process for the preparation of said pharmaceutical preparations.

Abstract: The present invention relates to oral multi-unitary pharmaceutical preparations containing substituted benzimidazoles being inhibitors of H+, K+-ATPase (i.e. omeprazole, lansoprazole, pantoprazole, leminoprazole and pariprazole) or their pharmaceutically acceptable salts.