Takeda Pharmaceutical has filed a New Drug Application with Japan's Ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare for Lampion (lansoprazole/amoxicillin/metronidazole) for the secondary eradication of Helicobacter pylori.
A triple therapy with a PPI, amoxicillin and clarithromycin is the standard treatment of first eradication of H. Pylori for gastric ulcers or duodenal ulcers in Japan. In cases where H. pylori is still not eradicated with this, a second triple-therapy regimen, replacing clarithromycin with metronidazole was approved in August 2007 in Japan.
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