BME Seminar - Wed., January 14
Event Date: | January 14, 2015 |
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Hosted By: | Weldon School of Biomedical Engineering |
Time: | 9:30 a.m. |
Location: | MJIS 1001, WL campus |
Peripheral artery disease (PAD) is a common manifestation of systemic atherosclerosis that affects one in ten people aged 70 years and one in six people older than 80 years. The most common clinical presentation of PAD is intermittent claudication (IC), characterized by pain in the calf muscle caused by insufficient blood flow during exercise. Numerous therapies exist to manage systemic atherothrombosis in PAD, but very few options are available to alleviate the leg symptoms, the major factor responsible for the deterioration in the quality of life of symptomatic patients. In this seminar, I will present the results of our recent studies with novel pharmacological strategies to treat patients with IC, including the antioxidant N-acetylcysteine (NAC) and the phosphodiesterase type 5 inhibitor sildenafil. I will also discuss our future plans of using thermal therapy as a strategy to improve vascular function and walking tolerance in these patients.
http://www.purdue.edu/hhs/hk/directory/faculty/roseguini_bruno.php
~BME Faculty Host: Craig Goergen~
***Coffee and juice will be provided at West Lafayette***
(via teleconference to SL165 at IUPUI)
2015-01-14 09:30:00 2015-01-14 10:30:00 America/Indiana/Indianapolis BME Seminar - Wed., January 14 Bruno Roseguini, Assistant Professor of Health and Kinesiology at Purdue University will present a seminar on Wednesday, January 14th entitled "Evolving therapeutic strategies for peripheral artery disease." MJIS 1001, WL campus