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. 2021 Nov 19;9:e12392. doi: 10.7717/peerj.12392

Table 3. Details of nanoparticles approved by FDA with their use in treatment of different disease.

S. No. Nanoparticles type/drug Application
1. Iron dextran colloid Iron deficient anemia (Anselmo & Mitragotri, 2019)
2. Liposomal verteporfin Mascular degeneration (Anselmo & Mitragotri, 2019)
3. Liposomal amphotericin B Treatment and prevention of invasive fungal infection (Anselmo & Mitragotri, 2019)
4. Liposomal propofol General anesthesia in open heart surgery or spinal surgery, morbidly obese patient (Anselmo & Mitragotri, 2019)
5. Perflutren lipid microspheres Ultrasound contrast agent (Anselmo & Mitragotri, 2019)
6. Iron carboxymaltose colloid Iron deficient anemia (Anselmo & Mitragotri, 2019)
7. Iron gluconate colloid Iron deficient anemia (Anselmo & Mitragotri, 2019)
8. Iron sucrose colloid Iron deficient anemia following autologous stem cell transplantation (Anselmo & Mitragotri, 2019)
9. Iron polyglucose
carboxymethylether colloid
Iron deficient anemia following chronic kidney disease (Anselmo & Mitragotri, 2019)
10. Liposomal doxorubicin Solid malignancies, pancreatic, breast, ovarian, leukemia, prostate, liver and metastatic cancer, Kaposi’s sarcoma myeloma (Anselmo & Mitragotri, 2019)
11. Liposomal daunorubicin Various leukemias, Kaposi’s sarcoma (Anselmo & Mitragotri, 2019; Obeid et al., 2018)
12. Albumin-particle bound paclitaxel Solid malignancies, lymphomas, breast, bladder, lung, neck and head, pancreatic, ovarian, prostate, liver and melanoma (Anselmo & Mitragotri, 2019)
13. Liposomal vincristin Brain, lymphomas, melanoma and leukemia (Anselmo & Mitragotri, 2019), (Obeid et al., 2018)
14. Liposomal irinotecan Solid malignancies, pancreatic, breast, brain or sarcomas cancer (Anselmo & Mitragotri, 2019)
11. Cytarabine: daunorubicin liposomal formulation Different leukemias (Anselmo & Mitragotri, 2019)
12. RNAi lipid protein Transthyretin mediated amyloidosis (Anselmo & Mitragotri, 2019)
13. Albumin bound Paclitaxel Metastatic breast cancer, lung cancer (Obeid et al., 2018; Desai et al., 2006)
14. Liposomal cytarabine Malignant lymphomatous meningitis (Obeid et al., 2018; Desai et al., 2006)
15. Paclitaxel polymeric micelle Cell lung and breast cancer (Obeid et al., 2018; Desai et al., 2006)