PROSTAGLANDIN COMPOUNDS, COMPOSITIONS AND METHODS OF TREATING PERIPHERAL VASCULAR DISEASE AND PULMONARY HYPERTENSION

摘要

Prostaglandin and analogs thereof which include protective groups attached to at least one site which are pharmaceutically acceptable and which are capable of slowing the metabolic rate of the active groups for administration to a warm blooded animal for the treatment of peripheral vascular disease and pulmonary hypertension. In fact, Figure 1 graphically shows the effects on pulmonary arterial pressure of a dose of mPEG20kDa-aminde-Compound X, given as an intravenous infusion to a sheep intravenously-induced with a pulmonary hypertensive agent.