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Deflazacort 18 MG Oral Tablet [Emflaza] — RxCUI 1870956

RxNorm drug concept · Semantic branded drug
RxCUI 1870956 Semantic branded drug · SBD ● Current RxNorm concept 5 FDA products 5 package NDCs Snapshot Jul 14, 2026

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🗂️ Key Facts

RxCUI1870956
Official nameDeflazacort 18 MG Oral Tablet [Emflaza]
Concept typeSemantic branded drug (SBD)
RxNorm statusCurrent RxNorm concept
Also known asEmflaza 18 MG Oral Tablet
FDA products mapped5
Package NDCs mapped5
Reported Medicaid activity (SDUD)11,218 prescriptions · 30 state & territory Medicaid programs · latest period Q4 2025
RxNorm release07/06/2026
Snapshot dataJul 14, 2026

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Our pharmacist-built guide to Deflazacort: what it is, how it’s used, side effects, and interactions.

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  • Deflazacort is used to treat Duchenne muscular dystrophy (DMD), a genetic disease that causes muscles to weaken and break down over time. It's a corticosteroid — a type of anti-inf...
  • Yes — several brands, including Emflaza, Jaythari, and Kymbee tablets, can be crushed and mixed immediately with applesauce if swallowing a whole tablet is difficult. The oral susp...
  • Can my child take the tablet if they have trouble swallowing pills?
  • Many children on deflazacort develop a rounder, puffier face (sometimes called a 'moon face'), gain weight, grow more body hair, and get more frequent infections — these are common...
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🕸️ Concept Web — How Deflazacort 18 MG Oral Tablet [Emflaza] Connects

One RxCUI never lives alone. Follow the path from the raw ingredient down to the exact strength-and-form concepts FDA products carry — every stop is a real RxNorm concept with its own identifier. Hover or focus any chip for what it means.
This page's concept Deflazacort 18 MG Oral Tablet [Emflaza] RxCUI 1870956

Every web starts here: one RxCUI, one fixed meaning in the RxNorm vocabulary.

  1. Ingredients 1

    The active substance itself — no strength, form, or brand attached yet.

    • Deflazacort 22396
  2. Brand names 1

    The same medicine's trade names. A brand name alone says nothing about strength or form.

    • Emflaza 1870945
  3. Dose forms 9

    The ingredient poured into a form — tablet, solution, cream — still without one fixed strength.

    • Deflazacort Oral Tablet 371693
    • Deflazacort Oral Product 1157200
    • Deflazacort Pill 1157201
    • Deflazacort Oral Tablet [Emflaza] 1870947
    • Emflaza Oral Product 1870948
    • Emflaza Pill 1870949
    • Oral Tablet 317541
    • Oral Product 1151131
    • +1 more in this family
  4. Clinical & branded drugs 3

    Ingredient + strength + dose form. These are the concepts real FDA products actually carry.

Showing up to 8 concepts per family — 13 of 14 stored related concepts drawn.
These are official RxNorm vocabulary relationships — how concepts name and organize the same medicine. They do not establish therapeutic equivalence or substitutability: two concepts appearing in one web is never a statement that products can be swapped.

🔀 Generic ⇄ Brand Crosswalk

The same medicine has an unbranded (generic) identity and one or more brand-name identities — each with its own RxCUI. This is a naming relationship in RxNorm, not a statement that any two products are substitutable.

Generic (Clinical) Concepts

  • Deflazacort 18 MG Oral Tablet SCD · 1870954
  • Deflazacort 18 MG SCDC · 1870953
  • Deflazacort Oral Tablet SCDF · 371693
  • Deflazacort Oral Product SCDG · 1157200
  • Deflazacort Pill SCDG · 1157201

Brand-Name Concepts

  • Deflazacort 18 MG [Emflaza] SBDC · 1870955
  • Deflazacort Oral Tablet [Emflaza] SBDF · 1870947
  • Emflaza Oral Product SBDG · 1870948
  • Emflaza Pill SBDG · 1870949
  • Emflaza BN · 1870945

📦 FDA Products & Package NDCs

5 products · 5 package NDCs
5 package NDCs map to RxCUI 1870956 in the current snapshot — up to 50 per page. Each linked NDC opens its full package page.
Package NDC Package Brand / generic name Labeler Marketing start
52856-0501-01 100 TABLET in 1 BOTTLE (52856-501-01) EMFLAZA PTC Therapeutics, Inc. 2018-09-10
52856-0502-03 30 TABLET in 1 BOTTLE (52856-502-03) EMFLAZA PTC Therapeutics, Inc. 2018-09-10
52856-0503-03 30 TABLET in 1 BOTTLE (52856-503-03) EMFLAZA PTC Therapeutics, Inc. 2018-09-10
52856-0504-03 30 TABLET in 1 BOTTLE (52856-504-03) EMFLAZA PTC Therapeutics, Inc. 2018-09-10
52856-0505-22 13 mL in 1 BOTTLE (52856-505-22) EMFLAZA PTC Therapeutics, Inc. 2019-08-30
Observed labelers: PTC Therapeutics, Inc. (5) — this is the FDA-listed mapping footprint, not sales, inventory, availability, or market share.

🗃️ Sources & Limits

Atlas generation902fddb9-e9c1-4004-bf4c-dba4d51037c7
openFDA export observedJul 14, 2026
RxNorm release07/06/2026
Methodology2026-07-full-catalog-v1
  • A shared RxCUI does not prove interchangeability. Products mapped to the same concept are not thereby equivalent or substitutable — equivalence is a separate, product-level determination.
  • Listing here does not establish approval or coverage. Appearing in this snapshot is a data observation, not an FDA approval status or a payer coverage decision.
  • Missing data never means zero. A silent dataset (no price, no billing code, no utilization) means no observation — not that the real-world value is zero.
  • Counts describe the mapping footprint. Product, package, and labeler counts are the FDA-listed mapping footprint in this snapshot — not sales, inventory, availability, or market share.
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