Approved Treatments for COPD

Advair Diskus (fluticasone-salmeterol) is an inhalation maintenance treatment for breathing difficulties caused by COPD. It is a combination of an inhaled corticosteroid (fluticasone) with a long-acting bronchodilator (salmeterol).

Albuterol (also known as salbutamol) is a short-acting bronchodilator. It is used in emergency situations or for quick relief use as needed.

Anoro Elipta (umeclidinium-vilanterol) is used to maximize bronchodilation for the once-daily maintenance treatment of COPD. Umeclidinium is a long-acting muscarinic antagonist bronchodilator, and vilanterol is a long-acting beta2-agonist bronchodilator.

Arcapta (iundacaterol) is a long-acting bronchodilator from the beta agonists class. It is used for breathing difficulties such as wheezing, shortness of breath, coughing, and chest tightness in people with COPD.

Arikayce (liposomal amikacin for inhalation, also known as LAI) is intended for the treatment of serious chronic lung infections, such as non-tuberculosis mycobacterium (NTM). Chronic lung diseases, such as COPD, are risk factors for NTM.

Atrovent HFA (ipratropium) is a short-acting bronchodilator used to prevent wheezing, shortness of breath, coughing, and chest tightness in people with COPD.

Bevespi Aerosphere (glycopyrrolate-formoterol) is designed to maximize bronchodilation as a long-term maintenance treatment for COPD. Glycopyrrolate is a long-acting muscarinic antagonist) bronchodilator, and formoterol is a long-acting beta2-agonist bronchodilator.

Breo ellipta (fluticasone-vilanterol) is used as a maintenance therapy for airway obstruction and to reduce sudden flares caused by COPD. It is a combination of an inhaled corticosteroid (fluticasone) and a long-acting bronchodilator (vilanterol).

Brovana (arformoterol) is a bronchodilator in the long-acting beta agonists class. It is used to control wheezing, shortness of breath, coughing, and chest tightness in people with COPD.

Combivent Respimat (albuterol–ipratropium) is a short-acting bronchodilator for people with COPD whose symptoms are not controlled by a regular aerosol bronchodilator and continue to experience a bronchospasm (airway constriction).

Daliresp (roflumilast) is used in adults with severe COPD to decrease the number of exacerbations. It is in a class of medications called phosphodiesterase inhibitors and works by decreasing the swelling in the lungs.

Dupixent (dupilumab) is an injectable maintenance therapy approved for adults with poorly controlled COPD and elevated blood counts of a type of immune cell called eosinophil. It is designed to improve patients’ lung function, ease symptoms, and reduce exacerbations by targeting eosinophils.

Flovent (fluticasone) is a prescription corticosteroid used to prevent breathing difficulties, chest tightness, wheezing and coughing caused by respiratory disorders such as COPD.

Formoterol (brand names Perforomist, Foradil) is a bronchodilator in a class of medications called long-acting beta agonists. It is used to control wheezing, shortness of breath, coughing and chest tightness in people with COPD.

Incruse Ellipta (umeclidinium) is an anticholinergic medicine used as a long-term treatment in people with COPD. It works by relaxing and opening the airways to the lungs, making breathing easier.

Lonhala Magnair (glycopyrrolate) Inhalation Solution, also known as SUN-101/eFlow, is a combination of glycopyrrolate, which is used to reduce secretions in the mouth, throat, airway, and stomach, and eFlow, an innovative nebulizer closed system, for the long-term maintenance treatment of airflow obstruction in people with moderate to very severe COPD.

Ohtuvayre (ensifentrine) is an inhaled maintenance therapy approved in the U.S. for adults with COPD. The nonsteroidal therapy is designed to improve patients’ lung function and ease disease symptoms by simultaneously lessening lung inflammation and widening the airways.

Prednisolone is a prescription steroid used to treat various conditions including breathing disorders such as COPD.

Pulmicort (budesonide inhalation) is a corticosteroid used to prevent breathing difficulties, chest tightness, wheezing, and coughing caused by respiratory disorders such as asthma and COPD.

Revefenacin is a long-acting muscarinic antagonist for the treatment of adults with COPD. It is delivered as a mist.

Seebri Neohaler (glycopyrrolate) is an anticholinergic medicine used as a long-term maintenance treatment of airflow obstruction in people with COPD.

Serevent (salmeterol) a long-acting beta agonist bronchodilator used to prevent breathing difficulties such as wheezing, shortness of breath, coughing and chest tightness caused by COPD.

Spiriva Respimat (tiotropium) is a bronchodilator used as a long-term maintenance treatment in people with COPD and for reducing COPD exacerbations.

Stiolto Respimat (tiotropium–olodaterol) is an inhalation spray that maximizes bronchodilation for the long-term maintenance treatment of COPD. Tiotropium is a long-acting muscarinic antagonist bronchodilator, and olodaterol is a long-acting beta2-agonist bronchodilator.

Striverdi Respimat (olodaterol)is a long-acting bronchodilator from the beta-adrenergic agonists LABA class of medicines. It is used to control wheezing, shortness of breath, coughing, and chest tightness caused by COPD.

Symbicort (budesonide-formoterol) is a maintenance treatment used to prevent bronchospasm (airway narrowing) caused by COPD. It is a combination of an inhaled corticosteroid (budesonide) that reduces inflammation, and a long-acting bronchodilator (formoterol).

Theophylline is a bronchodilator that’s been used in the treatment of COPD for more than seven decades. It is used to treat wheezing or shortness of breath caused by asthma, bronchitis, emphysema, and other breathing disorders.

Trelegy Ellipta is a once-daily, single-inhaler triple therapy approved as a long-term maintenance treatment for certain patients COPD, including those with chronic bronchitis and emphysema.

Tudorza (aclidinium bromide) is a bronchodilator used as a long-term treatment in people with COPD. It works by relaxing and opening the airways to the lungs, making it easier to breathe.

Utibron Neohaler (glycopyrrolate-indacaterol) is a long-term maintenance treatment for airflow obstruction or to prevent bronchospasm in people with COPD. Glycopyrrolate is a long-acting muscarinic antagonist bronchodilator, and indacaterol is a long-acting beta2-agonist bronchodilator.

Xopenex HFA (levalbuterol) is a short-acting bronchodilator (rescue bronchodilator) to treat or prevent a bronchospasm, or to relieve or prevent the wheezing, coughing, and chest tightness caused by COPD and lung diseases such as asthma.

Yupelri (revefenacin) is an approved once-daily maintenance therapy developed by Theravance Biopharma and Mylan (now part of Viatris) for chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD). Its U.S. approval, in 2018, was based on data from several Phase 3 studies showing Yupelri’s superiority over a placebo at ameliorating lung function in patients with moderate to severe disease.