302 results about "Hypotension shock" patented technology

This document discusses, among other things, systems and methods that detect hypotension based on a measurement of thoracic impedance. It also provides an alert, a logging, or a therapy to treat the hypotension. Examples of anti-hypotension therapies include, among other things, pacing therapy, neural stimulation therapy, drug infusion therapy, or gene therapy.

Disclosed herein are methods for treating a vascular leak disorder, hypotension, or a procoagulant state using angiopoietin-2 (Ang-2) antagonist compounds. Also disclosed are methods for treating a vascular leak disorder associated with high dose IL-2 therapy using angiopoietin-2 antagonist compounds. Methods for diagnosing and monitoring vascular leak disorders, hypotension, or a procoagulant state that include the measurement of Ang-2 polypeptide or nucleic acid levels are also disclosed. Methods for inducing a vascular leak using an Ang-2 agonist are also disclosed.

The invention relates to estimation of a patient's propensity to suffer from symptomatic hypotension during extracorporeal blood treatment. An electromagnetic test signal, which is applied over a thoracic region of the patient via at least one transmitter electrode. A result signal produced in response to the test signal is received via at least one receiver electrode on the patient. A test parameter is derived based on the result signal. The test parameter expresses a fluid status of the thoracic region of the patient, and it is determined whether the test parameter fulfills an alarm criterion. If the test parameter fulfills an alarm criteria, an alarm signal is generated. This signal indicates that the patient is hypotension prone, and that appropriate measures should be taken.

A method and system for the extracorporeal treatment of blood to remove fluid from the fluid overloaded patient is disclosed that non-invasively measures an oxygen level in the venous blood. The oxygen blood level is used to detect when hypotension is about to occur in a patient. The oxygen level measurements are used as feedback signals. These feedback signals are applied to automatically control the rate of fluid extraction to achieve the desired clinical outcome and avoid precipitating a hypotensive crisis in the patient.

A device for manipulating intrathoracic pressures comprises a compressible bag structure, and an interface member coupled to the bag structure. A one way forward valve is coupled to the bag structure to permit respiratory gas to flow to the patient when the bag structure is compressed. A one way exit valve is employed to allow respiratory gases to be pulled from the person's airway upon decompression of the bag structure to produce a negative intrathoracic pressure.

The invention provides methods of delivering pharmacologic agents linked to an internalization peptide, in which an inflammatory response inducible by the internalization peptide is inhibited by co-administration of an anti-inflammatory or by linking the internalization peptide to biotin or similar molecule. Such methods are premised in part on the results described in the examples whereby administration of a pharmacological agent linked to tat high dosages is closely followed by an inflammatory response, which includes mast cell degranulation, histamine release and the typical sequelae of histamine release, such as redness, heat, swelling, and hypotension.

[Problem] As compared with the current oral sustained-release preparation containing tamsulosin hydrochloride which have been supplied to the medical setting, there is a problem to provide a sustained-release pharmaceutical composition in which efficacy is equivalent or even better, adverse events such as adverse reactions (e.g., postural hypotension) are reduced, dose can be increased and, if desired, ingestion of food is not limited. [Means for Resolution] A sustained-release pharmaceutical composition, characterized in that, there are contained tamsulosin or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt thereof and a carrier for a sustained-release pharmaceutical composition and, when dissolution test is carried out according to Japanese Pharmacopoeia Dissolution Test Method 2, the tamsulosin release after 7 hours from the start of the dissolution is about 20 to about 85%.

The invention relates to a Chinese medicine composition used in a hypertension-relieving and tranquilizing pillow, which belongs to the field of bed health-care products. The technical proposal thereof is: the composition comprises the raw materials with the following weight portion: 15 portions to 20 portions of Bluish dogbane, 20 portions to 30 portions of Semen Cassiae Torae, 10 portions to 20 portions of Rhizoma Ligustici Wallichii, 10 portions to 20 portions of Tree Peony Bark, 10 portions to 20 portions of Angelica dahurica, 10 portions to 20 portions of asarum, 10 portions to 20 portions of Selfheal, 5 portions to 10 portions of Borneol, 15 portions to 20 portions of Chinese Angelica, 15 portions to 25 portions of Cortex Eucommiae, 10 portions to 20 portions of Honeysuckle, 20 portions to 30 portions of flower of Chinese Scholartree, 20 portions to 40 portions of Mulberry leaf, 50 portions to 80 portions of Silkworm dropping, 15 portions to 25 portions of Gardenia Jasminoides, 10 portions to 20 portions of Rhizoma Gastrodiae, 10 portions to 20 portions of Radix Cyathulae, 10 portions to 20 portions of Radices Paeoniae Alba, 10 portions to 30 portions of Virgate Wormwood Herb and 15 portions to 30 portions of dried Rehmannia root. The formula is reasonable and the effects of activating blood circulation to dissipate blood stasis and dredging channels and collaterals as well as relieving hypertension and tranquilizing are remarkable. In addition, the Chinese medicine composition can prevent dizziness and headache caused by the elevation of blood pressure and diseases that threaten life such as cerebral vascular accident and cerebral thrombosis, and has remarkable effect on preventing cervical spondylosis.

The invention provides a cassia obtusifolia tea bag with functions of weight reduction, hypotension and hypoglycemic effect, which is characterized in that the production process comprises the following steps: washing, cleaning and drying the cassia obtusifolia stem, leaf and grain, crushing by a pulverizer to 280 meshes, uniformly stirring, packing, disinfecting to obtain the cassia obtusifolia tea bag with functions of lipid lowering, hypotension and hypoglycemic effect. The optimal composition and the weight part ratio of the tea bag are: 40-60 parts of dried cassia obtusifolia stem, leaf and grain, 10 parts of dried lotus leaf, 5 parts of haw, 5 parts of dried balsam pear, 5 parts of Chinese wolfberry, 10 parts of Pu'er tea, 10 parts of cassia seed, 5 parts of mulberry leaf, 5 parts of folium apocyni veneti, 5 parts of Chinese yam as medicine, 3 parts of rhubarb, 2 parts of chrysanthemum, 2 parts of honeysuckle flower, 1 part of boat-fruited sterculia, 5 parts of cassia seed, 5 parts of kudzu root and 10 parts of additive. The additive is composed of fatty acid sucrose ester, xylitol, mannitol crystal, natural menthol, citric acid, trisodium phosphate, sodium saccharin and steviosid; the above components are carried out the processes of crushing, mixing, uniformly stirring, packing and disinfecting to obtain the tea bag.

The invention generally relates to angiogenic factors and more particularly to the angiopoietin family of growth factors and to methods of using these growth factors to induce vasodilation and hypotension and reducing hypertension.

The present invention relates to phenyl or heteroaryl amino alkane derivatives of formula (I)

in which the groups Q¹-Q⁴, Ar, and R¹-R⁷ are as defined in the specification and claims. These materials are useful as active ingredients of pharmaceutical preparations. The phenyl or heteroaryl amino alkanes of the present invention have IP receptor antagonistic activity, and can be used for the prophylaxis and treatment of diseases associated with IP receptor antagonistic activity. Such diseases include urological diseases or disorders as follows: bladder outlet obstruction, overactive bladder, urinary incontinence, detrusor hyper-reflexia, detrusor instability, reduced bladder capacity, frequency of micturition, urge incontinence, stress incontinence, bladder hyperreactivity, benighn prostatic hypertrophy (BPH), prostatitis, urinary frequency, nocturia, urinary urgency, pelvic hypersensitivity, urethritis, pelvic pain syndrome, prostatodynia, cystitis, or idiophatic bladder hypersensitivity. The compounds of the present invention are also useful for treatment of pain including, but not limited to inflammatory pain, neuropathic pain, acute pain, chronic pain, dental pain, premenstrual pain, visceral pain, headaches, and the like; hypotension; hemophilia and hemorrhage; and inflammation, since these diseases also are alleviated by treatment with an IP receptor antagonist. The application claims the compounds, pharmaceutical compositions containing them, and methods of treatment using them.

Guanosine triphosphate pathway tetrahydrobiopterin synthesis antagonist and/or pterin salvage pathway tetrahydrobiopterin synthesis antagonists are administered to inhibit nitric oxide synthesis from arginine in vascular cells in a subject in need of such inhibition (e.g., for prophylactic or curative effect for endotoxin- or cytokine-induced hypotension or for restoration of vascular contractile sensitivity to pressor agents in the treatment of such hypotension). The tetrahydrobiopterin synthesis antagonist may be administered with alpha 1-adrenergic agonist or with nitric oxide synthase inhibitor. The tetrahydrobiopterin synthesis antagonists are also administered to attenuate inflammation caused by induced nitric oxide production in immune cells. Unwanted counterproductive or side effects can be eliminated or ameliorated by administration additionally of levodopa with or without carbidopa and L-5-hydroxytryptophane.

The present invention relates to an electric stimulation apparatus for treating hypotension of patients with spinal cord injury and a method for treating hypotension. An electric stimulation apparatus of the present invention comprises: a blood pressure measuring means for continuously measuring a blood pressure of a subject; an electric current application means for intermittently applying an electric current to skin of the subject; and a control means for controlling the electric current application means so as to maintain the blood pressure at a predetermined target blood pressure value by activating the electric current application means when the subject blood pressure is equal to or less than the target blood pressure value.

This invention provides compounds which are represented by a general formula [I]

[in which X stands for hydrogen or halogen; B stands for halogen, cyano or optionally fluorine-substituted lower alkyl; D stands for a 3–10 membered aliphatic nitrogen-containing heterocyclic group; R³, R⁴ and R⁵ may be same or different, and each stands for hydrogen, lower alkyl optionally having substituent group(s) and the like; and a is 0 or 1]. These compounds exhibit high affinity to nociceptin receptors and whereby inhibit actions of nociceptin, and are useful as an analgesic, antiobestic, agent for ameliorating brain function, treating agents for Alzheimer's disease and dementia, and therapeutic agents for schizophrenia, neurodegenerative diseases, depression, diabetes insipidus, polyuria, hypotension and the like.

Provided herein are peptide formulations comprising polymers as stabilizing agents. The peptide formulations can be more stable for prolonged periods of time at temperatures higher than room temperature when formulated with the polymers. The polymers used in the present invention can decrease the degradation of the constituent peptides of the peptide formulations.

Novel phannaceutcal kit comprising a controlled release pharmaceutical compositions for oral use containing midodrine and/or its active metabolite desglymidodrine and a relatively fast onset composition. The controlled release compositions are designed to release midodrine and/or desglymidodrine after oral intake in a manner which enables absorption to take place in the gastrointestinal tract so that a relatively fast peak plasma concentration of the active metabolite desglymidodrine is obtained followed by a prolonged and relatively constant plasma concentration of desglymidodrine. The controlled release compositions may be designed for administration once or twice daily, i.e. a therapeutically effective concentration of desglymidodrine is maintained for a period of at least 10-16 hours followed by a wash out period of about 8-12 hours in order to avoid the well-known midodrine related side effect with respect to supine hypertension. The therapeutically effective concentration of desglymidodrine is regarded as a plasma concentration of desglymidodrine of at least about 3 ng/ml. A composition is designed to release midodrine and/or desglymidodrine in at least the following consecutive steps; i) an initial relatively fast release of midodrine and/or desglymidodrine (in order to obtain a relatively fast onset of action), ii) a steady release or a slower release than in step 1 of midodrine and/or desglymidodrine (in order to maintain a plasma concentration of desglymidodrine which is prolonged and relatively constant), iii) a second rise in release of midodrine and/or desglymidodrine (in order to take advantage of absorption from the colon, i.e. such a second rise release is designed to take place when the composition (or the disintegrated parts of the composition) reaches the colon; normally this is regarded to take about 8 hours after oral intake, and iv) a decline in release rate corresponding to that essentially all midodrine and/or desgtymidodrine have been released from the composition. One of the advantages of the invention is that the controlled release composition provides a base line plasma concentration, which during most of the day is therapeutically effective. When a higher concentration is needed, only a minor supply of active drug substance is necessary to obtain a very fast relief from symptoms. If the constant base line plasma concentration was absent, it would be necessary to use a relative higher fast onset dose to reach the high therapeutically effective level. The kit according to the present invention is a superior tool for obtaining an optimal treatment with a minimum of active drug substance. Also disclosed is a method for treating orthostaic hypotension and/or urinary incontinence, the method comprising administration to a patient in need thereof of an effective amount of midodrine and/or desglymidodrine in a kit according to the invention.

The present invention is directed to imidazolyl derivatives of the formula:

where the substituents are defined in the specification, or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt thereof. The derivatives bind selectively to the somatostatin subtype receptors and elicit either an agonist or antagonist effect from the somatostatin subtype receptors. The derivatives are useful for treating a variety of diseases including acromegaly, restenosis, Crohn's disease, systemic sclerosis, external and internal pancreatic pseudocysts and ascites, VIPoma, nesidoblastosis, hyperinsulinism, gastrinoma, Zollinger-Ellison Syndrome, diarrhea, AIDS related diarrhea, chemotherapy related diarrhea, scleroderma, Irritable Bowel Syndrome, pancreatitis, small bowel obstruction, gastroesophageal reflux, duodenogastric reflux, Cushing's Syndrome, gonadotropinoma, hyperparathyroidism, Graves' Disease, diabetic neuropathy, Paget's disease, polycystic ovary disease, cancer, cancer cachexia, hypotension, postprandial hypotension, panic attacks, GH secreting adenomas or TSH secreting adenomas.

A method and system for the extracorporeal treatment of blood to remove fluid from the fluid overloaded patient is disclosed that non-invasively measures osmotic pressure across a filter membrane of a blood filter. The filter is permeable to water and electrolytes, but not to blood protein. The osmotic pressure indicates the protein concentration in the blood. Osmotic pressure is used to detect when hypotension is about to occur in a patient, as a result of excessive blood volume reduction during treatment of the blood. Using the osmotic pressure measurement as a feedback signal, the rate of fluid extraction is automatically controlled to achieve the desired clinical outcome and avoid precipitating a hypotensive crisis in the patient.