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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 14, 2009
Filed:
Sep. 10, 2004
Marvin P. Loeb, Huntington Beach, CA (US);
Ginger Johnson, Newport Beach, CA (US);
John P. Burrell, Tustin, CA (US);
Robert J. Sullivan, Lake Forest, CA (US);
Lawrence J. Perkins, Anaheim, CA (US);
Marvin P. Loeb, Huntington Beach, CA (US);
Ginger Johnson, Newport Beach, CA (US);
John P. Burrell, Tustin, CA (US);
Robert J. Sullivan, Lake Forest, CA (US);
Lawrence J. Perkins, Anaheim, CA (US);
Cardiomedics, Inc., Lake Forest, CA (US);
Abstract
A method for treating patients suffering from left ventricular dysfunction, exhibited by a left ventricular ejection fraction (LVEF) less than normal, is disclosed. The method involves applying, during diastole, for a time period of about one hour, about five days each week for at least about seven weeks, an incrementally increasing therapeutic pressure to the patients' lower extremities, from the calves through the thighs and the buttocks. The hourly treatments are carried out at incrementally increasing peak diastolic/systolic pressure ratios (D/S Ratios) in the range of about 0.4:1 up to about 0.6:1 and thereafter at a D/S Ratio in the range of 0.5:1 to 1:1 for each consecutive hourly treatment, with the proviso that the average D/S Ratio over the entire treatment regimen does not exceed about 0.9:1.