Treatment of heart failure
AssigneeHeart Metabolics Limited
InventorsHouman ASHRAFIAN, Michael Paul FRENNEAUX
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Abstract
The invention relates to perhexiline, or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt thereof, for use in the treatment of heart failure, as well as to a method for treating heart failure, which comprises administering to an animal in need thereof an effective amount of perhexiline, or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt thereof, to treat said heart failure. The invention further relates to a treatment programme for treating heart failure, which involves the co-use or co-administration of perhexiline with one or more other compounds that are advantageous in treating heart failure or the symptoms thereof.
Claims21
A method for treating heart failure in a mammal having a left ventricular ejection fraction of at least 50% or a symptomatic component/feature/condition thereof, comprising:
- administering to said mammal in need thereof a therapeutically-effective amount of perhexiline.
A method for treating heart failure in a mammal having a left ventricular ejection fraction of at least 50% substantially as described in the specification, Tables and Examples, with reference to each of the accompanying Figures.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.