USE OF HYDROXYGUANIDINES

摘要

Hydroxyguanidines are useful for the manufacture of a medicament for treatment or prevention of an ischemic disease condition including an ischemic condition caused by surgery or other therapy and being associated with the production of oxygen derived radicals, the disease condition being a xanthine oxidase/xanthine dehydrogenase mediated ischemic condition selected from heart infarction, angina pectoris, cerebrovascular infarction, circulatory shock, transient ischemic attacks of the cerebrovascular system, arterial occlusion, arterial thromboembolism, bowel torsion with strangulation, testicular torsion, lung embolus, cardiac surgery including by-pass grafting, and localised organ surgery involving reduced blood flow, organ transplantation, circulatory shock, and general hypoxia. Preferred hydroxyguanidines are carbimino hydroxyguanidines, in particular aryl carbimino hydroxyguanidines. Also disclosed are corresponding methods of treatment, including extracorporeal treatment of organs, and a number of hydroxyguanidines.