The FTC charged that the merger would have damaged competition for drugs used to treat a leg-cramping condition known as intermittent claudication.
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"' Cilostazol "'is a quinolinone-derivative medication used in the alleviation of the symptoms of intermittent claudication in individuals with peripheral vascular disease.
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The drug is designed to treat intermittent claudication, which is caused by the blockage or narrowing of arteries in legs due to atherosclerosis.
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This edit on Intermittent Claudication is a straight lift from Hanson's site Alcohol And Health and References Alcohol : Problems and Solutions ( Ref # 89)
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Such extracts are also used to improve pain-free walking distance in people with peripheral arterial occlusive disease such as intermittent claudication, Raynaud disease, acrocyanosis, and post-phlebitis syndrome.
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"' Interspinous Process Decompression "', or IPD, is a neurogenic intermittent claudication, and who are able to relieve their symptoms when they bend forward or flex their spines.
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Angiotensin converting enzyme inhibitors, beta-blockers, antiplatelet agents ( aspirin and clopidogrel ), naftidrofuryl, pentoxifylline, and cilostazol ( selective PDE3 inhibitor ) are used for the treatment of intermittent claudication.
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Fischer and Tebrock worked with this drug in more than two hundred patients for more than three years, achieving effective improvements, mainly in syntoms related to intermittent claudication, ulcer healing and others.
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In the circulatory system, intermittent claudication ( leg pain during walking which resolves at rest ) is a prominent feature, although at later stages coronary artery disease may develop, leading to angina and myocardial infarction ( heart attack ) may occur.
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Of patients with intermittent claudication, only " 7 % will undergo lower extremity bypass surgery, 4 % major amputations, and 16 % worsening claudication ", but stroke and heart attack events are elevated, and the " 5-year mortality rate is estimated to be 30 % ( versus 10 % in controls ) ".
