Rationale for combining a direct renin inhibitor with other renin- angiotensin system blockers. Focus on aliskiren and combinations.

abstract：:Calcium entry blockers exert several characteristic effects on renal function that contribute to their blood-pressure lowering capacity. They are able to dilate renal vasculature and, in certain circumstances, can increase the glomerular filtration rate, both effects being dependent on the preexisting vascular tone. C...

journal_title：Cardiovascular drugs and therapy

authors： Ruilope LM,Alcazar JM

更新日期：1990-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:This review aims at updating the results of cardiac resynchronization therapy (CRT) in mild heart failure patients, and investigating whether CRT can prevent or reverse heart failure progression in an earlier stage. METHODS:Randomized controlled trials of CRT in patients with New York Heart Association (NYHA...

journal_title：Cardiovascular drugs and therapy

authors： Tu R,Zhong G,Zeng Z,Wu W,Wu H,Cao X,Aung LH

更新日期：2011-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:There is considerable evidence implicating a key role for p38 mitogen-activated protein kinase (MAPK) in ischemic and pharmacological preconditioning against myocardial infarction. However, there have been few, if any, studies examining the role of p38 MAPK in the protection of stunned myocardium. The purpose of this ...

journal_title：Cardiovascular drugs and therapy

authors： Yoshimura Y,Kristo G,Keith BJ,Jahania SA,Mentzer RM Jr,Lasley RD

更新日期：2004-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Of 17 patients with mild to moderate essential hypertension, 8 showed echocardiographic evidence of left ventricular hypertrophy. Cardiac and renal function evaluated by glomerular filtration rate (GFR) were studied in all patients before and after 20 weeks of quinapril treatment. Systolic pressure decreased from 174....

journal_title：Cardiovascular drugs and therapy

authors： De Caprio L,De Rosa ML,Di Palma A,Lirato C,Caccese P,Sestito M,Lastoria S,Cicatiello AM,Rengo F

更新日期：1994-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In animal models, calcium antagonists (Ca-A) administered before ischemia and reperfusion reduced myocardial necrosis, attenuated postischemic contractile dysfunction, and reduced tissue calcium. In 753 patients with acute myocardial infarction (AMI), we examined if use of Ca-A at the onset of symptoms (n = 127 patien...

journal_title：Cardiovascular drugs and therapy

authors： Landmark K,Abdelnoor M,Kilhovd B,Dørum HP

更新日期：1997-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To characterize the effects of OPC-8212, a quinolone inotropic agent, in patients with heart failure, we utilized invasive hemodynamics, exercise testing, 24-hour ambulatory electrocardiograms, and two patient self-assessment questionnaires, before and after 1 month of treatment with OPC-8212, in 17 patients with mode...

journal_title：Cardiovascular drugs and therapy

authors： Kubo SH,Rector TS,Strobeck JE,Cohn JN

更新日期：1988-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The effects of altered extracellular K+ concentrations ([K+]o) and pacing cycle lengths (CLs) on the electrophysiological actions of dofetilide (UK-68,798), a potent class III antiarrhythmic agent, were examined in isolated guinea-pig ventricular papillary muscle. At a normal [K+]o (4 mM) and at CL between 300 and 500...

journal_title：Cardiovascular drugs and therapy

authors： Yang T,Tande PM,Lathrop DA,Refsum H

更新日期：1992-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The DAVIT-II trial has shown that the verapamil type of calcium antagonist can beneficially be used in post-infarct patients. A recent re-analysis suggests that verapamil may also prevent post-infarct sudden death. There are good theoretical reasons to suppose that calcium antagonists should help prevent ventricular f...

journal_title：Cardiovascular drugs and therapy

authors： Opie LH

更新日期：1991-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The majority of calcium antagonists used clinically belong to three distinct chemical classes: the phenylalkylamines, the dihydropyridines, and the benzothiazepines. In recent years their mode of action has been unravelled, their limitations recognized, and their efficacy and use in the management of patients with a b...

journal_title：Cardiovascular drugs and therapy

authors： Ferrari R,Cucchini F,Bolognesi R,Bachetti T,Boraso A,Bernocchi P,Gaia G,Visioli O

更新日期：1994-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:To assess the effects of electro-acupuncture (EA) on glycemic control, myocardial inflammation, and the progression of diabetic cardiomyopathy in mice with type 2 diabetes. METHODS:Db/Db mice received EA at PC6+ST36 (DM-Acu), non-acupoint simulation (DM-Sham), or no treatment (DM). EA was applied for 30 min pe...

journal_title：Cardiovascular drugs and therapy

authors： Ye Y,Birnbaum Y,Widen SG,Zhang Z,Zhu S,Bajaj M,Chen H

更新日期：2020-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This study was designed to compare once-daily administration of 5-10 mg amlodipine with two daily doses of 40 mg sustained-release isosorbide dinitrate in 59 patients with stable angina using a randomized, double-blind, crossover study design. Anginal episodes, nitroglycerin consumption, and possible adverse events we...

journal_title：Cardiovascular drugs and therapy

authors： Steffensen R,Melchior T,Bech J,Nissen H,Haastrup B,Grande P,Rasmussen V,Hansen JF,Skagen K,Haghfelt T

更新日期：1997-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In vitro and in vivo studies have demonstrated many similarities between the three calcium antagonists verapamil, nifedipine, and diltiazem in relation to protection of the myocardium during hypoxia. Important clinical differences exist between the three drugs when they are used during or after an acute myocardial inf...

journal_title：Cardiovascular drugs and therapy

authors： Hansen JF

更新日期：1991-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cardiac reperfusion injury after heart transplantation or cardiopulmonary bypass has been difficult to control due to the variable degree of myocardial damage with respect to the length of ischemia and the complexity of the surgical procedure. Here, we evaluated the myocardial metabolic and functional recovery of hear...

journal_title：Cardiovascular drugs and therapy

authors： Orita H,Shimanuki T,Fukasawa M,Abe H,Kuraoka S,Hirooka S,Washio M

更新日期：1991-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Ranolazine, an inhibitor of the late current of the cardiac action potential (late I(Na)), is a well established clinical treatment for chronic angina. The late INa in cardiac myocytes also plays an important role in the pathophysiology of acute myocardial ischemia and reperfusion, and thus is a potential therapeutic ...

journal_title：Cardiovascular drugs and therapy

authors： Hale SL,Kloner RA

更新日期：2014-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The cardiovascular effects and safety of transdermal nicotine patches were assessed in 50 healthy smokers using repeated 48 hour ambulatory electrocardiographic monitoring as a part of a smoking cessation program. Following baseline measurements, subjects were randomized to active (n = 25) or placebo (n = 25) treatmen...

journal_title：Cardiovascular drugs and therapy

authors： Khoury Z,Comans P,Keren A,Lerer T,Gavish A,Tzivoni D

更新日期：1996-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Milrinone is shown in 10 patients to be a valuable pharmacological bridge to heart transplantation; it can stabilize and improve decompensated chronic heart failure (CHF) in cases where the response to beta-agonists is inadequate. One patient who had suffered an acute myocardial infarction with heart failure resistant...

journal_title：Cardiovascular drugs and therapy

authors： Sherry KM,Locke TJ

更新日期：1993-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Piperanometozine (OPC-8212) is a new, orally effective inotropic agent. To evaluate the efficacy of this agent on systemic hemodynamics and clinical symptoms in patients with congestive heart failure, a multicenter study was performed. Thirty four patients with New York Heart Association (NYHA) functional classes II t...

journal_title：Cardiovascular drugs and therapy

authors： Inoue M,Hori M,Yasuda H,Takishima T,Sugimoto T,Sasayama S,Sakurai T,Nonogi H,Kodama K,Kusukawa R

更新日期：1987-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Excess activity of the sympathetic nervous system (SNS) is linked to human obese hypertension and to salt-sensitive hypertension. Paradoxically, reduced SNS activity has been implicated as a contributor to obesity, particularly in animal models, and salt loading usually inhibits SNS activity. We have investigated the ...

journal_title：Cardiovascular drugs and therapy

authors： Ernsberger P,Koletsky RJ,Collins LA,Bedol D

更新日期：1996-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:As damage to the pulmonary vascular endothelium may be responsible for the lung toxicity of amiodarone, we evaluated the cytolytic toxicity of the drug in cultures of endothelial cells. Cells were cultured from human umbilical cord veins. Amiodarone caused a vacuolization of the cells with liberation of both lactate d...

journal_title：Cardiovascular drugs and therapy

authors： Baudin B,Bénéteau-Burnat B,Giboudeau J

更新日期：1996-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Obesity is one of the most common lifestyle-related diseases. Being closely associated with insulin resistance, hypertension and dyslipidemia, it is also a component of metabolic syndrome and is involved in the development of atherosclerosis and cardiovascular and renal ailments. Obesity is also accompanied with a sta...

journal_title：Cardiovascular drugs and therapy

authors： Yan M,Mehta JL,Hu C

更新日期：2011-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:The PPAR-alpha agonists (fibrates) are commonly used in the treatment of dyslipidemia. It has been hypothesized that the cardio-protective effects of fibrates are partially due to immunomodulatory effects. However, there is a paucity of data regarding the effect of fibrates on neutrophilic chemokines such as ep...

journal_title：Cardiovascular drugs and therapy

authors： Price ET,Welder GJ,Zineh I

更新日期：2012-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:The mitogen-activated protein kinase phosphatases (MKPs) are a family of dual-specificity phosphatases that inactivate MAPKs by dephosphorylation. Impairment of MKP-1 expression in insulin resistance has been suggested to affect the cardioprotective properties of insulin. We hypothesized that manipulation of it...

journal_title：Cardiovascular drugs and therapy

authors： Webster I,Smith A,Lochner A,Huisamen B

更新日期：2017-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The effects of nifedipine on left ventricular function were evaluated in 17 patients with coronary artery disease with an ambulatory radionuclide detector (VEST). Hemodynamic data were recorded continuously at rest and during upright bicycle ergometer exercise before and 30 minutes after 10 mg of oral nifedipine admin...

journal_title：Cardiovascular drugs and therapy

authors： Kambara H,Mohiuddin IH,Tamaki N,Fudo T,Hayashi M,Nohara R,Konishi J,Kawai C

更新日期：1990-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：AIM:To review whether brain natriuretic peptides (BNP) can be used as a surrogate for the traditional methods of assessing functional status in interventional studies of patients with left ventricular systolic dysfunction (LVSD). METHODS AND RESULTS:The traditional methods for assessing functional status including New...

journal_title：Cardiovascular drugs and therapy

authors： Abdulla J,Køber L,Torp-Pedersen C

更新日期：2004-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：INTRODUCTION:Irisin is a newly identified 112 amino acid hormone, derived as a product of fibronectin type III domain containing 5 (FNDC5), which is highly related to metabolic activity in skeletal muscle and brown fat. The effects of irisin on cardiovascular functions are unknown. PURPOSE:To explore the effects of ce...

journal_title：Cardiovascular drugs and therapy

authors： Zhang W,Chang L,Zhang C,Zhang R,Li Z,Chai B,Li J,Chen E,Mulholland M

更新日期：2015-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Torsades de pointes (TdP) is a life-threatening ventricular tachycardia that occurs in the setting of a prolonged QT interval and is most frequently related to administration of antiarrhythmic drugs. Patients with organic heart disease, with low serum electrolyte levels, with a previous episode of TdP and with bradyca...

journal_title：Cardiovascular drugs and therapy

authors： Keren A,Tzivoni D

更新日期：1991-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Early reperfusion after an organ ischemia is essential to salvage tissue from eventual death. However, abundant evidence suggests that reperfusion also elicits pathophysiological changes responsible for additional tissue injury after restoration of blood flow. Postconditioning (Postcon) defined as rapid sequential int...

journal_title：Cardiovascular drugs and therapy

authors： Zhao ZQ

更新日期：2010-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:Protein kinase C alpha (gene: PRKCA) is a key regulator of cardiac contractility. Two genetic variants have recently been discovered to regulate PRKCA expression in failing human heart tissue (rs9909004 [T → C] and rs9303504 [C → G]). The association of those variants with clinical outcomes in patients with hea...

journal_title：Cardiovascular drugs and therapy

authors： Luzum JA,Ting C,Peterson EL,Gui H,Shugg T,Williams LK,Li L,Sadee W,Wang D,Lanfear DE

更新日期：2019-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Preconditioning and stunning are the chief adaptive changes induced in myocardium by a brief episode of reversible ischemia followed by arterial reperfusion. In the dog heart, both coexist for a period of at least 20 minutes of reperfusion, but after 120 minutes of reflow, preconditioning is much diminished, while stu...

journal_title：Cardiovascular drugs and therapy

authors： Jennings RB,Murry CE,Reimer KA

更新日期：1991-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Nicorandil (N) and isosorbide dinitrate (ISDN) are vasodilator drugs used in patients with angina. In 24 healthy male volunteers (18-32 years), the acute effect of a single oral dose (20 mg) of N and ISDN on arterial diameter (D), distensibility, and compliance of the elastic common carotid artery (CCA) and the muscul...

journal_title：Cardiovascular drugs and therapy

authors： Kool MJ,Spek JJ,Struyker Boudier HA,Hoeks AP,Reneman RS,van Herwaarden RH,Van Bortel LM

更新日期：1995-04-01 00:00:00