Sentences with phrase «with vasodilator»

We also increase the diameter of blood vessels throughout the body with vasodilator drugs so the heart does not have to work as hard.

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In a collaboration with Pedro Cabrales of U.C. San Diego, Friedman is exploring the potential of nitric oxide nanoparticles to treat high blood pressure (nitric oxide is a vasodilator that relaxes blood vessels, and is thus an effective high blood pressure treatment).

The researchers found that, after adjusting for age, sex and other factors, using any vasodilator such as Apresoline and Loniten, which open (dilate) the blood vessels — was associated with a 72 percent greater risk of developing early - stage AMD.

Our studies have shown that patients with idiopathic pulmonary arterial hypertension (IPAH, previously known as primary pulmonary hypertension or PPH) have low levels of NO in their exhaled breath that increase after initiation of vasodilator therapy.

He suggests working with a neurologist or sexual medicine specialist, who may prescribe a vasodilator (including an erectile dysfunction drug such as Viagra), a migraine medication such as Imitrex, or a neurostabilizing drug such as Neurontin.

By contrast, when you breath in your nose, the air is warmed, moistened, conditioned and mixed with nitric oxide, which both kills bacteria and works as a vasodilator on the airways, arteries and capillaries.

The Nitric Oxide is an intense vasodilator that assists the veins with widening or expand and unwind.

Enhancement of heart muscle contractility and reduction of blood pressure is gained with the use of angiotensin - converting enzyme (ACE) inhibitors such as enalapril and benazepril and vasodilators like amlodipine and diltiazem.

Medications that help with the condition are diuretics, vasodilators (which decrease resistance in the blood vessels), angiotensin - converting enzyme inhibitors, and sometimes digoxin.

Raynauds has been part of my life for nearly 25 years now and the symptoms, cold fingers and toes, have been well controlled with a very low dose of a medicine that is used for blood pressure control, a vasodilator called Prazosin.