335 results about "Ischemic Heart Diseases" patented technology

A URAT1 activity inhibitor containing a nitrogen-containing fused ring compound represented by the following formula [1]:

wherein each symbol is as defined in the description. The present invention is useful for the prophylaxis or treatment of pathology showing involvement of uric acid, such as hyperuricemia, gouty tophus, acute gouty arthritis, chronic gouty arthritis, gouty kidney, urolithiasis, renal function disorder, coronary artery disease, ischemic heart disease and the like.

Systems and methods define an index of risk for cardiac disease by detecting cellular derangements that may lead to cardiomyopathy, heart rhythm disorders or ischemic heart disease. The markers include fluctuations or abnormal rate-behavior of electrical, mechanical or other measurable biosignals. The invention operates in modes that can be applied to prevent atrial fibrillation or the risk for ventricular arrhythmias. Alternative embodiments are applied to tissue outside the heart such as skeletal muscle, smooth muscle, the central nervous system, the respiratory system, the urogenital system and the gastrointestinal system.

A narrowing intraluminal stent is disclosed and comprises a hollow body and a flow passage therethrough, the hollow body designed for intraluminal placement and having at least one portion of an inner cross sectional dimension smaller than the cross sectional dimension of the lumen, so as to artificially narrow a passage through the body lumen. A method of artificially narrowing a passage through a body lumen using the stent is also disclosed.

A plurality of electrodes for measuring electrocardiogarphic waveforms are attached on body surface positions that constitute a subset of the standard 12-lead system. The measured electrocardiogarphic waveforms of said subset of said standard 12-lead system are used to calculate the electrocardiogarphic waveforms of remaining leads in the said standard 12-lead system. The measured and calculated electrocardiographic waveforms are synthesized to form a standard 12-lead electrocardiogram. The invention is capable of monitoring the 12-lead electrocardiogram with reduced number of electrodes, wherein a portion of waveforms are directly measured and used as primary information for diagnosing heart disease, and the other portion of waveforms are derived from the measured leads and are used as a secondary information for improving the accuracy of diagnosis. The invention is especially useful in monitoring ischemic heart disease and acute myocardial infarction in cases where mounting and maintaining ten electrodes to obtain 12-lead electrocardiogram is difficult, such as in ambulatory monitoring, long-term monitoring and home monitoring.

[Problems] The present invention provides a superior production method and a superior purification method of compounds effective for the treatment or prophylaxis of pathology showing involvement of uric acid, such as hyperuricemia, gouty tophus, acute gouty arthritis, chronic gouty arthritis, gouty kidney, urolithiasis, renal function disorder, coronary artery disease, ischemic heart disease and the like.

[Means] A compound represented by the following formula [2] or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt thereof can be produced by reacting a compound represented by the following formula [3] or a salt thereof with a compound represented by the following formula [4], a salt thereof or a reactive derivative thereof. Moreover, crystallization of a compound represented by the formula [2] can be performed with industrially superior workability, and high quality crystals of a compound represented by the formula [2] can be obtained.

wherein each symbol is as defined in the description.

Methods of treating metabolic diseases and disorders using a FGF21 polypeptide are provided. In various embodiments the metabolic disease or disorder is type 1 diabetes, obesity, dyslipidemia, elevated glucose levels, elevated insulin levels, diabetic nephropathy, neuropathy, retinopathy, ischemic heart disease, peripheral vascular disease and cerebrovascular disease

[Problems] The present invention provides pharmaceutical composition which is effective for the prophylaxis or treatment of pathology showing involvement of uric acid (hyperuricemia, gouty tophus, acute gout arthritis, chronic gout arthritis, gouty kidney, urolithiasis, renal function disorder, coronary arterial disease, ischemic heart disease and the like) and the like, and is superior in the time-course stability and dissolution property (disintegration property).

[Solving Means] The pharmaceutical composition of the present invention is a pharmaceutical composition comprising a nitrogen-containing fused ring compound represented by the following formula [1] or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt thereof, and one or more pharmaceutically acceptable additives, wherein the nitrogen-containing fused ring compound or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt thereof is not in contact with a basic additive:

wherein each symbol is as described in the specification.

The invention concerns a marker for low-grade inflammation and metabolic syndrome (MS) and MS-related diseases and/or low-grade inflammation-related diseases such as cardiovasculardisease, ischemic heart disease and type 2 diabetes. More particularly it concerns the measurement of the concentration of soluble urokinase plasminogen activator receptor (suPAR) in human biological fluids (sputum, cystic fluid, ascites, serum, plasma, urine) as a tool of diagnosing and/or prognosticating low-grade inflammation and metabolic syndrome and the risk of development of the related diseases such as cancer, cardiovascular disease, ischemic heart disease and type 2 diabetes.

The present invention provides a pharmaceutical composition and a method for reducing an infarct region resulting from the ischemic necrosis of cells, especially, a pharmaceutical composition and a method for suppressing ischemia-reperfusion injury in the treatment of ischemic heart disease. The pharmaceutical composition and the method utilize a substance, as an active ingredient, which can increase intracellular cGMP production by acting on a natriuretic peptide receptor, and which has the effect of reducing an infarct region. The substance is preferably a natriuretic peptide. The present invention is particularly useful for the treatment or prophylaxis of ischemic disease.

PCT No. PCT/JP97/01829 Sec. 371 Date Jan. 29, 1998 Sec. 102(e) Date Jan. 29, 1998 PCT Filed May 29, 1997 PCT Pub. No. WO97/45427 PCT Pub. Date Dec. 4, 1997The invention relates to novel pyridocarbazole derivatives having highly selective action in inhibiting cyclic GMP-phosphodiesterase (hereinafter abbreviated as cGMP-PDE), processes for producing such derivatives, agents containing at least one of such derivatives as an active ingredient for preventing and/or treating pulmonary hypertension, ischemic heart diseases or diseases against which the cGMP-PDE inhibitory action is effective, and intermediates useful for the production of pyridocarbazole derivatives.

Method is provided of treating or preventing hypertrophy, hypertension, myocardial ischemia, ischemic heart disease, myocardial infarction, congestive heart failure, organ ischemia, tissue ischemia, acute coronary syndrome, unstable angina, ischemia reperfusion injury, preventing death subsequent to myocardial infarction, cerebral infarction, contractile dysfunction subsequent to myocardial infarction, or arrhythmia in a mammal with low doses of pyridoxine, pyridoxal-5′phosphate, pyridoxal or pyridoxamine. Compositions and kits for said method is also included.

The present invention relates to methods for determining whether blood flow is restricted in a blood vessel of an individual suspected of compromised blood flow in the vessel, the method comprising the steps of delivering UTP, a derivative thereof, or a salt thereof to the vessel, assessing blood flow quantitatively in the vessel by obtaining a value that correlates to blood flow in said vessel, comparing the obtained value with a reference value, and determining whether the individual has compromised blood flow based on the results of the comparison. The invention also provides for methods of diagnosing atherosclerotic and ischemic heart diseases using UTP, a derivative thereof, or a salt thereof, as well as methods for inducing maximal hyperemia for diagnostic purposes.

The present invention provides novel nucleic acid and protein sequences for methods and compositions for treating, screening, and diagnosing cardiovascular disease and methods for using these genes and gene products for prevention of cardiac cell death and prevention of cardiac tissue damage resulting from ischemic events in cardiac tissue, as well as other tissue that is subject to damage resulting from an ischemic event. The genes, gene products and agents of the invention are also useful for treating other related clinical or coronary events such as angina, myocardial infarct (MI), and stroke, for monitoring the effectiveness of their treatment, and for drug development. The genes, gene products and agents of the present invention are also provided as pharmaceutical compositions for treatment of cardiovascular disease, ischemic heart disease, myocardial infarct and related conditions. Kits are also provided for the diagnosis, treatment and prognosis of cardiac diseases and related conditions.

The invention relates to umbilical cord mesenchymal stem cell injection and a preparation method and application thereof. The injection comprises umbilical cord mesenchymal stem cells and mixed solution; the mixed solution comprises balanced electrolyte solution, hydroxyethyl starch, adenosine disodium triphosphate-magnesium chloride, dimethyl sulfoxide and human serum albumin. The preparation method comprises the following steps: (1) fully and evenly mixing the balanced electrolyte solution, the hydroxyethyl starch and the human serum albumin, and performing filtration sterilization; (2) adding the umbilical cord mesenchymal stem cells; (3) adding the dimethyl sulfoxide; (4) performing split charging and frozen preservation to finish preparation; the invention also provides the application of the injection in the aspect of drugs for treating chronic ischemic heart diseases. The injection disclosed by the invention has a very good resuscitation effect after the frozen preservation, can be directly injected after being unfrozen and resuscitated, and has a remarkable effect on treatment on the chronic ischemic heart diseases.

The present invention relates to novel heterocyclic compounds of the general formula (I), their derivatives, analogs, tautomeric forms, stereoisomers, polymorphs, hydrates, solvates, pharmaceutically acceptable salts and compositions, metabolites and prodrugs thereof. The present invention more particularly provides novel hetereocycles of the general formula (I). Also included is a method of treatment of immunological diseases, inflammation, pain disorder, rheumatoid arthritis; osteoporosis; multiple myeloma; uveititis; acute and chronic myelogenous leukemia; ischemic heart disease; atherosclerosis; cancer; ischemic-induced cell damage; pancreatic beta cell destruction; osteoarthritis; rheumatoid spondylitis; gouty arthritis; inflammatory bowel disease; adult respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS); psoriasis; Crohn's disease; allergic rhinitis; ulcerative colitis; anaphylaxis; contact dermatitis; muscle degeneration; cachexia; asthma; bone resorption diseases; ischemia reperfusion injury; brain trauma; multiple sclerosis; sepsis; septic shock; toxic shock syndrome; fever, and myalgias due to infection in a mammal comprising administering an effective amount of a compound of formula (I) as described above.

The invention discloses a method for predicting bleeding events in patients with ischemic heart diseases based on lifting-resampling and feature correlation analysis. The method includes the steps of(1) constructing training samples; (2) introducing a lifting-resampling framework for resampling of the training samples based on a logistic regression model, constructing a loss function of the logistic regression model based on patient sample-sample correlations and patient feature-feature correlations, and constructing a pre-training model; (3) using the training samples and true value labels corresponding to the training samples for training the pre-training model, using an equalized subsample set obtained by resampling for training the logistic regression model in each iteration to obtaina weak classifier corresponding to the equalized subsample set, and using multiple weak classifiers obtained after multiple iterations to constitute a predictive model of the bleeding events in the patients with the ischemic heart diseases; (4) using the predictive model of the bleeding events in the patients with the ischemic heart diseases to predict the probability of occurrence of bleeding events in samples to be tested.

Disclosed is a medicinal composition containing tanshinone and its preparing process, wherein the composition comprises tanshinone, oil, emulsifying agent and water. The composition can be prepared into oral administration emulsion or venous emulsion, and can be used for treating or preventing infection, cerebral apoplexy, cerebral ischemia / reperfusion injury, ischemic heart disease, tumor, liver fibrosis, diabetic complication, pulmonary fibrosis, chronic nephritis, chronic kidney functional insufficiency and Alzheimer's disease.

Disclosed are methods for use in transferring nucleic acids into cells at a wound site associated with a fluid space. These gene transfer protocols are suitable for use in transferring various nucleic acids into cartilage, cardiac muscle, and other tissues, and have many uses including treating diseases such as arthritis and ischemic heart disease, and promoting wound healing. The invention further disclosed pharmaceutical compositions that may be used in the practice of the invention to transfer the nucleic acid of interest. Such compositions include any multi-partitioned biocompatible matrix in combination with multiple nucleic acids of interest.

It is intended to provide a novel polypeptide having an activity of growing vascular endothelial cells, an activity of promoting transcription form c-fos promoter, an activity of promoting transciption from VEGF promoter and/or an angiogenic activity; a polynucleotide encoding this polypeptide; the above polypeptide and/or a pharmaceutical composition containing the polypeptide for treating a disease selected from the group consisting of obstructive arteriosclerosis, Buerger's disease, peripheral vascular disorder, angina, myocardial infraction, brain infarction, ischemic heart disease and ischemic brain disease; a method of treating these diseases; and an antibacterial composition. The above problems can be solved by isolating a novel peptide having the above-described activities and a nucleotide encoding this peptide.