Inhibition of platelet activation in congestive heart failure by aldosterone receptor antagonism and ACE inhibition

Thrombosis and Haemostasis

Volumn 89, Issue 6, 2003, Pages 1024-1030

  Schäfer, Andreas ^a   Fraccarollo, Daniela ^a   Hildemann, Steven ^b   Christ, Michael ^c   Eigenthaler, Martin ^a   Kobsar, Anna ^a   Walter, Ulrich ^a   Bauersachs, Johann ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL WÜRZBURG   (Germany)

^b PFIZER INC   (United States)

^c PHILIPPS UNIVERSITY MARBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Aldosterone; Heart failure; Infarction; Nitric oxide; Platelets

Indexed keywords

ACETYLCHOLINE; ALDOSTERONE ANTAGONIST; ALDOSTERONE RECEPTOR; DICLOFENAC; DIPEPTIDYL CARBOXYPEPTIDASE; DIPEPTIDYL CARBOXYPEPTIDASE INHIBITOR; EPLERENONE; FIBRINOGEN; NITRIC OXIDE; PADGEM PROTEIN; PHENYLEPHRINE; PLACEBO; PROSTAGLANDIN SYNTHASE INHIBITOR; SERINE; TRANDOLAPRIL; VASODILATOR STIMULATED PHOSPHOPROTEIN;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; BIOAVAILABILITY; CONGESTIVE HEART FAILURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DRUG EFFECT; HEART INFARCTION; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE ENDDIASTOLIC PRESSURE; HYPERCOAGULABILITY; MALE; MONOTHERAPY; NONHUMAN; PHOSPHORYLATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN BINDING; RAT; RISK; THROMBOCYTE ACTIVATION; THROMBOEMBOLISM; TREATMENT OUTCOME; TREATMENT PLANNING; VASCULAR DISEASE;

EID: 0038150601     PISSN: 03406245     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1055/s-0037-1613404     Document Type: Article

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