31 results about "Orthostatic BP" patented technology

The invention relates to dihydroxyphenylalanine derivatives, the production thereof, and pharmaceutical compositions containing said dihydroxyphenylalanine derivatives. The invention further relates to the use of said dihydroxyphenylalanine derivatives and pharmaceutical compositions for the treatment and prevention of movement disorders, neurodegenerative diseases, Alzheimer, Parkinson's disease, hemiatrophy hemiparkinsonism, Parkinson's syndrome, Lewy bodies disease, frontotemporal dementia, Lytico-Bodig disease (Parkinsonism-dementia-amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, striatonigral degeneration, Shy-Drager syndrome, sporadic olivopontocerebellar degeneration, progressive pallidal atrophy, progressive supranuclear palsy, Hallervorden-Spatz disease, Huntington's disease, X chromosome-linked dystonia (Morbus Lubag), mitochondrial cytopathy with striatal necrosis, neuroacanthocytosis, restless leg syndrome, Wilson's disease.

A once-a-day oral milnacipran pulsatile release composition has been developed that releases the drug in spaced apart “pulses”. The dosage forms are comprised of first, second and optional third dosage units, with each dosage unit having a different drug release profile. This dosage form provides in vivo drug plasma levels characterized by C_max below 3000 ng/ml, preferably below 2000 ng/ml, and most preferably below 1000 ng/ml. The composition provides pulsatile release of milnacipran to produce a therapeutic effect over approximately 24 hours, when administered to a patient in need, resulting in diminished incidence or decreased intensity of common milnacipran side effects such as sleep disturbance, nausea, vomiting, headache, tremulousness, anxiety, panic attacks, palpitations, urinary retention, orthostatic hypotension, diaphoresis, chest pain, rash, weight gain, back pain, constipation, vertigo, increased sweating, agitation, hot flushes, tremors, fatigue, somnolence, dyspepsia, dysoria, nervousness, dry mouth, abdominal pain, irritability, and insomnia.

Novel controlled release pharmaceutical compositions for oral use containing midodrine and/or its active metabolite desglymidodrine. The novel 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 novel 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 desglymidodrine have been released from the composition.

Also disclosed is a method for treating orthostatic 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 composition according to the invention.

A medical treatment system and method are provided for the treatment of tissue ailments, including weakened bone structures caused by fractures, osteoporosis, or other bone related ailments, and orthostatic hypotension, using a vibrating plate. The system and method use magnetic fields to provide vertical vibrational motion to a platform, thus allowing the system to have a lower profile.

A non-invasive method and apparatus are provided for treating orthostatic hypotension and for reducing the effects caused there from. An increase in blood and fluid flow in the lower extremities is achieved by vibrating the lower body of the individual at a frequency in the range of 10-120 Hz. The apparatus includes a strap for being secured to a body part of the individual's lower extremities, e.g., the sole of one's foot, and a displacement sensor which senses any movement of the body part. The displacement sensor continuously sends signals to a processor of the apparatus which indicate whether there was any movement of the body part. If the displacement sensor did not sense any substantial movement of the body part for a predetermined period of time the processor sends a signal to a vibrating mechanism. The signal activates the vibrating mechanism causing vibration of the body part for increasing blood and fluid flow in the lower extremities. The vibrating mechanism causes vibration for a predetermined period of time.

Methods and compositions containing huperzine for direct delivery to central nervous system (CNS) tissue are used to alleviate pain and for the prevention and/or treatment of seizures and epilepsy. The invention is also directed to methods and compositions for using huperzine for the prevention and/or treatment of neuropathic pain and orthostatic hypotension.

Methods and compositions containing huperzine are used to prevent and alleviate neuropathic pain. The invention is also directed to methods and compositions for using huperzine for the prevention and/or treatment of neuropathic pain and orthostatic hypotension.

The present invention provides methods and systems for reducing falls in patients that are recurrent fallers. Specifically, the compositions, systems, and methods can relate to Parkinson's disease patients, particularly such patients that are suffering from neurogenic orthostatic hypotension. The compositions, systems, and methods comprise the use of droxidopa, optionally in combination with a further active agent. Administration of droxidopa has been found to reduce the mean number of falls per patient per week, as well as provide improvements in the patient's Hoehn and Yahr rating scale score, which is indicative of improvements in postural stability, and provide improvements in the patient's Unified Parkinson's disease Rating Scale score, which is indicative of improvements in the severity of motor and/or non-motor symptoms of Parkinson's disease.

The invention discloses a pedestal pan ring capable of automatic lifting, which is characterized in that the pedestal pan ring can lift automatically through a lifting platform. The lifting power supply is provided by a motor, a driving gear of the output end of the motor is a worm, and a driven gear engaged with the driving gear is a turbine; an eccentric cylindrical sliding block is fixedly arranged at the side wall of the turbine and extends into a slideway of a swinging rod, the front end of the swinging rod is pinned on one side of a shaft arranged at the upper front end of a stand, and the swinging rod is also symmetrically arranged at the opposite side of the shaft and pinned on the other side of the shaft; back ends of two swinging rods are both provided with symmetrical slideways, two cylindrical sliding blocks are respectively arranged upside and downside two sides of the lifting platform integrated with the pedestal pan ring into a whole, and the lower cylindrical sliding block extends into the slideway; the upper and the lower cylindrical sliding blocks at two sides are arranged in the slideway at the back of the stand and perpendicular to the stand in a penetrating way; and an upper travel switch and a lower travel switch are arranged between the areas where the swinging rods move on the stand. After defecation, the motor is started and then the pedestal pan ring can be lifted slowly, therefore, the difficulties of pins and needles and standing up caused by compression of leg nervus vascularis are quickly relieved and orthostatic hypotension dizziness is prevented.

A method is provided for reducing the risk of sustaining a traumatic brain injury caused by a traumatic event that includes identifying a subject at risk of sustaining a traumatic brain injury, and then precisely increasing the partial pressure of carbon-dioxide (CO₂) in the blood of the subject (pCO₂). This method can be applied to raise the CO₂ and pCO₂ to improve orthostatic hypotension in conditions such as dysautonomias (like Positional Orthostatic Tachycardic Syndrome POTS) and to facilitate the drive to breathe in conditions like Central Sleep Apnea (CSA) and Sudden Infant Death Syndrome (SIDS). The pCO₂ of the person is increased by placing a breathing apparatus over the mouth of the person through which the person must breath, wherein the breathing apparatus includes an enlarged dead space volume in which expired CO₂ collects to be inhaled or re-breathed by the person on the next inhalation.

The invention discloses a eucommia ulmoides oliver leaf and corn peptide composition capable of reducing blood pressure and blood fat and relates to the field of blood pressure and blood fat reduction. The composition comprises an eucommia ulmoides oliver leaf extract, a dendrobium officinale extract and an active corn peptide. The eucommia ulmoides oliver leaf and corn peptide composition adoptsa traditional Chinese medicine formula, has the excellent effects of reducing blood pressure and blood fat, and can also effectively solve the accompanying symptoms of hypertension and hyperlipidemia,such as headache, dizziness, tinnitus, palpitation and insomnia, is nontoxic and free of side effects, does not affect the liver and kidney functions of the body and does not cause the liver and kidney burden. In addition, the eucommia ulmoides oliver leaf and corn peptide composition does not cause physical dependence on taking, and does not cause symptoms such as orthostatic hypotension for theaged. The invention also provides a preparation method of the eucommia ulmoides oliver leaf and corn peptide composition capable of reducing blood pressure and blood fat. The effective ingredients inthe raw materials can be fully extracted by adopting the preparation method, and the preparation method is simple and easy to operate.

The present invention relates to an agent for preventing and/or treating diabetic neuropathy comprising a 2-[(substituted-inden-7-yloxy)methyl]morpholine of the formula (I) or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt thereof as an active ingredient. The invention is useful for providing an excellent agent for preventing and/or treating diabetic neuropathy, and particularly useful for providing an agent for preventing and/or treating diabetic motor neuropathy (such as muscle weakness disorder (such as muscle weakness disorder with inability to walk independently)), diabetic sensory neuropathy (such as paresthesia (such as vibration perception abnormality), allodynia, hypoesthesia (such as numbness of extremities or cold sensation), or pain), or diabetic autonomic neuropathy (such as stool abnormality (such as constipation or diarrhea), urination disorder, impotence, orthostatic hypotension, sudomotor dysfunction, abnormal heart rate variability, or delayed gastric emptying). Further, the invention is particularly useful for providing an agent for improving pathophysiology of diabetic neuropathy.

The invention relates to the compounds of formula I or its pharmaceutical acceptable salts, as well as polymorphs, solvates, enantiomers, stereoisomers and hydrates thereof. The pharmaceutical compositions comprising an effective amount of compounds of formula I, and methods for the treatment of autonomic and other neurological disorders may be formulated for oral, buccal, rectal, topical, transdermal, transmucosal, intravenous, parenteral administration, syrup, or injection. Such compositions may be used to treatment of neurogenic orthostatic hypotension (NOH), as well as NOH associated with multiple system atrophy (MSA), familial amyloid polyneuropathy (FAP), pure autonomic failure (PAF), and Parkinson's disease (PD), intradialytic hypotension (IDH) or hemodialysis-induced hypotension, hypotension associated with fibromyalgia syndrome (FMS) and chronic fatigue syndrome (CFS).

The present disclosure provides a method for treating symptomatic orthostatic hypotension using a potent selective antagonist of N-methyl-D-aspartate receptor subunit 2B (NMDA-GluN2B or NR2B).

Methods of treating orthostatic hypotension are disclosed. The methods include administering to a subject in need thereof an effective amount of a beta 2 (β2) adrenoceptor antagonist, and in particular, the specific β2 adrenoceptor antagonist, 3-(isopropylamino)-1-[(7-methyl-4-indanyl)oxy]butan-2-ol.

This document provides methods and materials related to treating orthostatic hypotension and/or postural tachycardia syndrome. For example, methods and materials for using a composition containing 3,4-diaminopyridine, 4-aminopyridine, or both to treat patients with orthostatic hypotension, postural tachycardia syndrome, or both orthostatic hypotension and postural tachycardia syndrome are provided.

The present invention provides a process for producing Droxidopa or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt thereof comprising a step of reacting threo-N-phthaloyl-3-(3,4-dihydroxyphenyl)-L-serine represented by the formula (1) with methylamine, whereby a process for producing threo-3-(3,4-dihydroxyphenyl)-L-serine (common name: Droxidopa), which is useful as an agent for treatment of peripheral orthostatic hypotension or an agent for treatment of Parkinson's disease, with high production efficiency and without requiring troublesome operations.

The subject matter presented herein provides an efficacious system and method for diagnosing orthostatic intolerance and for treating orthostatic hypotension. A dynamic compression garment that comprises a servo-controlled splanchnic venous compression with automated binder system is used to regulate blood flow, for instance, during orthostasis. The system includes a programmable controller and a computing device in communication with the controller, an inflator, one or more sensors, and a power supply. The system can collect a user's biometric data, which may be transmitted to the user, a physician in charge of the user, or a third-party. Moreover, the biometric data may be incorporated into a machine learning model that can be used to further program the controller.