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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 23, 1997
Filed:
Mar. 24, 1995
Applicant:
Inventors:
Mark K Gutniak, S-165 65 Hasselby, SE;
Thomas R Coolidge, Falls Village, CT (US);
Robert R Recker, Omaha, NE (US);
Fred W Wagner, Walton, NE (US);
Assignee:
Other;
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
A61K / ; A61K / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
514 12 ; 514 21 ;
Abstract
A method of decreasing patient time in a catabolic state after a traumatic injury. The patient is administered systemically human growth hormone releasing factor or a biologically active analog of human growth hormone releasing factor. Administration in the case of voluntary traumatic injury such as surgery occurs just prior to commencing the surgery and thereafter continuing until recovery. In this way the time in a catabolic state is significantly decreased, and the patient moves more quickly to desired anabolic state necessary for recovery.