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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 20, 2004
Filed:
Jun. 12, 2000
William J. Hoekstra, Chapel Hill, NC (US);
Michael N. Greco, Lansdale, PA (US);
Leonard R. Hecker, Harleysville, PA (US);
Bruce E. Maryanoff, Forest Grove, PA (US);
Jay M. Matthews, Lansdale, PA (US);
Ortho-McNeil Pharmaceutical, Inc., Raritan, NJ (US);
Abstract
The invention is directed to tricyclic indoloazepine compounds useful as vasopressin receptor antagonists, pharmaceutical compositions comprising the compounds of the present invention and methods of treating conditions involving increased vascular resistance and cardiac insufficiency which include hypertension, congestive heart failure, cardiac insufficiency, coronary vasospasm, cardiac ischemia, liver cirrhosis, renal vasospasm, renal failure, cerebral edema and ischemia, stroke, thrombosis or water retention in a subject in need thereof.