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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 20, 2007
Filed:
Jun. 16, 2005
Applicants:
Rebecca Guggemos Bakker-arkema, Ann Arbor, MI (US);
Milton Lethan Pressler, Saline, MI (US);
Inventors:
Rebecca Guggemos Bakker-Arkema, Ann Arbor, MI (US);
Milton Lethan Pressler, Saline, MI (US);
Assignee:
Astellas Pharma Inc., , JP;
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
A61K 31/55 (2006.01); A61K 31/34 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
Combinations of diuretics and vasopressin antagonists are useful to slow and reverse the symptoms and process of congestive heart failure, to increase the excretion of water in the urine, and to decrease the excretion of sodium and potassium ions in urine. Preferred vasopressin antagonists have the formula wherein R and Rare hydrogen or lower alkyl;