US 7,381,698 B2
	Methods for treatment of acute pancreatitis
Seymour H. Fein, New Canaan, Conn. (US); and Edward D. Purich, Silver Spring, Md. (US)
Assigned to ChiRhoClin, Inc., Burtonsville, Md. (US)
Filed on Dec. 08, 2004, as Appl. No. 11/7,490.
Claims priority of provisional application 60/529433, filed on Dec. 12, 2003.
Prior Publication US 2005/0129675 A1, Jun. 16, 2005
Int. Cl. A61K 38/00 (2006.01); A61K 38/16 (2006.01)

U.S. Cl. 514—2  [514/8; 514/12]

8 Claims

1. A method for treating acute pancreatitis in a human patient, comprising the step of administering to a human patient suffering from acute pancreatitis a therapeutically effective amount of a pharmaceutical composition comprising secretin and a pharmaceutically acceptable carrier, said pharmaceutical composition capable of treating said acute pancreatitis in said human patient, and wherein the amount of secretin administered to said patient in said pharmaceutical composition ranges from 2 to 480 micrograms per day.