Effects of chronic nitrate therapy on left-ventricular volume in patients with heart failure secondary to coronary disease already treated with captopril: A withdrawal study

Cardiology

Volumn 95, Issue 2, 2001, Pages 61-65

  Wieshammer, Siegfried ^a,b   Hetzel, Martin ^a   Hetzel, Jürgen ^a   Henze, Eberhard ^a   Hombach, Vinzenz ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ULM   (Germany)

^b Klinikum Offenburg   (Germany)

Author keywords

Angiotensin converting enzyme inhibitors; Coronary disease; Heart failure; Nitrates

Indexed keywords

CAPTOPRIL; DIURETIC AGENT; ISOSORBIDE DINITRATE; NITRATE; PLACEBO;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOUBLE BLIND PROCEDURE; EXERCISE; FEMALE; HEART CATHETERIZATION; HEART EJECTION FRACTION; HEART FAILURE; HEART INFARCTION; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE ENDDIASTOLIC VOLUME; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE VOLUME; HUMAN; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIOISOTOPE VENTRICULOGRAPHY; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL;

ADULT; AGED; ANGIOTENSIN-CONVERTING ENZYME INHIBITORS; CAPTOPRIL; CORONARY DISEASE; DIURETICS; DOUBLE-BLIND METHOD; HEART FAILURE, CONGESTIVE; HUMANS; ISOSORBIDE DINITRATE; MIDDLE AGED; MYOCARDIAL INFARCTION; SUBSTANCE WITHDRAWAL SYNDROME; VASODILATOR AGENTS;

EID: 0034946450     PISSN: 00086312     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000047347     Document Type: Article

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