Low-dose amiodarone for patients with advanced heart failure who are intolerant of beta-blockers

Circulation Journal

Volumn 66, Issue 5, 2002, Pages 441-444

  Takemura, Katsuya ^a   Yasumura, Yoshio ^a   Hirooka, Keiji ^a   Hanatani, Akihisa ^a   Nakatani, Satoshi ^a   Komamura, Kazuo ^a   Yamagishi, Masakazu ^a   Miyatake, Kunio ^a  

^a NATIONAL CEREBRAL AND CARDIOVASCULAR CENTER   (Japan)

Author keywords

Advanced heart failure; Amiodarone; Beta blockers; Neurohumoral factors

Indexed keywords

AMIODARONE; ATRIAL NATRIURETIC FACTOR; BETA ADRENERGIC RECEPTOR BLOCKING AGENT; BRAIN NATRIURETIC PEPTIDE; CARVEDILOL; DIGITALIS; DIPEPTIDYL CARBOXYPEPTIDASE INHIBITOR; DIURETIC AGENT; METOPROLOL; NORADRENALIN; PIMOBENDAN;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BLOOD PRESSURE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DRUG EFFICACY; DRUG TOLERABILITY; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HEART ASSIST DEVICE; HEART DILATATION; HEART FAILURE; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE FUNCTION; HEART RATE; HEART TRANSPLANTATION; HUMAN; HYPERTROPHIC CARDIOMYOPATHY; MALE;

ADRENERGIC BETA-ANTAGONISTS; ADULT; AMIODARONE; ANTI-ARRHYTHMIA AGENTS; ATRIAL NATRIURETIC FACTOR; BLOOD PRESSURE; CARDIAC OUTPUT, LOW; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, DRUG; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HEART; HEART RATE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NATRIURETIC PEPTIDE, BRAIN; RETREATMENT; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX;

EID: 0036257677     PISSN: 13469843     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1253/circj.66.441     Document Type: Article

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