Lanreotide Acetate and PhosLo

• Generic Name: lanreotide
• Dosage Forms: n.a.
• Other Brand Names: Somatuline Depot

Long-term treatment of acromegaly in patients who have had inadequate responses to or are not candidates for surgical resection and/or radiotherapy (designated an orphan drug by FDA for this use).

Goal of therapy is to normalize concentrations of growth hormone (GH) and insulin-like growth factor 1 (IGF-1).

Improves certain manifestations of acromegaly (asthenia, joint pain, swelling of extremities, excessive perspiration, headache).

• Generic Name: calcium acetate
• Dosage Forms: capsule
• Other Brand Names: PhosLo, Calphron, Eliphos, PhosLo Gelcap, Phoslyra

• It is used to lower high phosphate levels.