Carvedilol: use in chronic heart failure.

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Carvedilol: use in chronic heart failure.

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Carvedilol is a beta-adrenergic antagonist with vasodilatory properties (alpha1-antagonism), which has been extensively evaluated in the treatment of patients with heart failure. In patients with chronic heart failure carvedilol improves left-ventricular (LV) ejection fraction over 6 to 12 months of treatment, and attenuates LV remodelling. Large-scale randomised, placebo controlled trials involving more than 4000 patients with chronic heart failure have demonstrated that carvedilol improves ...

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Journal article

Date created

2007-01

Creator

Doughty, Robert / White, HD

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http://hdl.handle.net/2292/15365

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Adrenergic beta-Antagonists / Angiotensin-Converting Enzyme Inhibitors / Carbazoles / Diabetic Angiopathies / Drug Therapy, Combination / Heart Failure / Heart Rate / Humans / Metoprolol / Myocardial Infarction / Propanolamines / Randomized Controlled Trials as Topic / Renal Insufficiency / Stroke Volume / Treatment Outcome / Ventricular Dysfunction, Left / Ventricular Function, Left

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