th a stroke, particularly if it can be
administered within three hours of onset, many stroke patients continue to
suffer advanced neurologic damage even though they have received tPA. More
importantly, most stroke victims do not arrive at the hospital in time to
be candidates for tPA. The American Stroke Association (ASA) has now
identified the use of therapeutic hypothermia as a promising area of
research for the potential treatment of stroke victims, and it is the
subject of ongoing clinical studies being sponsored by InnerCool Therapies
and supported by the U.S. National Institutes of Health.
For fever control, surface cooling devices are becoming one of several
important therapies to help manage patients who experience fevers in
association with severe neurologic injuries or other medical conditions.
The ASA and the American Association of Neurological Surgeons (AANS), as
well as other organizations internationally, now recommend proactive fever
reduction following neurological injury. The company estimates that more
than 450,000 hospital patients in the U.S. experience neurologic or
non-neurologic fever conditions that either require or could benefit from
proactive therapies to reduce patients' body temperatures. Fever patients
typically require treatment for multiple days, sometimes as long as a week.
About Cardium
Cardium Therapeutics, Inc. and its subsidiaries, InnerCool Therapies,
Inc. and the Tissue Repair Company, are medical technology companies
primarily focused on the development, manufacture and sale of innovative
therapeutic products and devices for cardiovascular, ischemic and related
indications. Cardium's lead product candidate, Generx (alferminogene
tadenovec, Ad5FGF4), is a DNA-based growth factor therapeutic being
developed for potential use by interventional cardiologists as a one-time
treatment to promote and stimulate the growth of collateral circulation in
the hearts of patients with ischemic conditions such as recurren
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