How many drugs treat Ascites?

Drug Landscape tracks 3 marketed treatments for Ascites (deduplicated by molecule). 0 Phase 3 candidates and 0 Phase 2 candidates are in the pipeline.

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Last reviewed 2026-06-10 · How we verify

Ascites — Treatment Landscape & Competitive Intelligence

Name: Drug Landscape Pharmaceutical Database
Creator: Drug Landscape
Published: 2026-01-01
License: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

Ascites (disease) competitive landscape: 3 marketed treatments tracked, 0 Phase 3 candidates, 0 Phase 2 candidates. Recent regulatory actions and upcoming PDUFA dates across the entire treatment set.

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Marketed treatment landscape

Approved drugs treating Ascites, deduplicated by molecule. See the full disease page for line-of-therapy detail.

Drug	Generic	Sponsor	Class	Target	First approval
Aldactone	spironolactone	Generic (originally Searle/Pfizer)	Aldosterone Antagonist [EPC]	Cytochrome P450 2C19, Multidrug and toxin extrusion protein 1, Nuclear receptor subfamily 1 group I member 2	1960-01-01
Spironolacton	Spironolacton	ACS Biomarker		Cytochrome P450 2C19, Multidrug and toxin extrusion protein 1, Nuclear receptor subfamily 1 group I member 2
spirolactone	spirolactone	Second Xiangya Hospital of Central South University		Cytochrome P450 2C19, Multidrug and toxin extrusion protein 1, Nuclear receptor subfamily 1 group I member 2

Phase 3 pipeline

No Phase 3 pipeline candidates tracked.

Phase 2 pipeline

No Phase 2 pipeline candidates tracked.

Recent regulatory actions (last 90 days)

No regulatory actions in the last 90 days for this treatment set.

Upcoming PDUFA dates (next 180 days)

No PDUFA dates in the next 180 days for this treatment set.

Sponsor landscape

ACS Biomarker · 1 drug in Ascites
Generic (originally Searle/Pfizer) · 1 drug in Ascites
Second Xiangya Hospital of Central South University · 1 drug in Ascites

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Drug Landscape (2026). Ascites — Treatment Landscape & Competitive Intelligence Brief. https://druglandscape.com/ci/disease/ascites. Accessed 2026-06-10.

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