| 摘要 |
In accordance with the present invention, it has been found that prolonged QT-c intervals in mammalian patients, indicative of susceptibility of the patients to arrhythmia and sudden cardiac death, can be reduced by a process in which an aliquot of the patient's blood is removed and stressed extracorporeally, by application thereto of oxidative stress and electromagnetic radiation such as ultraviolet light, and then re-injected into the patient. Such treatment results in a significant reduction in QT-c interval in the patients, indicative of reduced susceptibility to arrhythmia and sudden cardiac death. In clinical trials described in the Examples section below, this reduction in QT-c interval was associated with a marked reduction in sudden cardiac death. There are also indications that, in the absence of treatment according to the invention, the patients would have exhibited a lengthening of their QT-c intervals. |
