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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 18, 1992
Filed:
Feb. 15, 1991
Applicant:
Inventors:
Jeffrey Askanazi, Haworth, NJ (US);
Susan Trimbo, Evanson, IL (US);
Assignee:
Clintec Nutrition Co., Deerfield, IL (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
A61K / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
514561 ;
Abstract
A method for improving ventilation during sleep and treating sleep-related ventilation abnormalities in an infant. To this end, the present invention provides a method of using branched-chain amino acids as an effective therapy for apnea of prematurity. The branched-chain amino acid composition can be administered either parenterally or enterally, and can be administered alone or in combination with other nutrients.