The role of aldosterone blockade in patients with heart failure

Heart Failure Reviews

Volumn 10, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 79-83

  Pitt, Bertram ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALDOSTERONE; ALDOSTERONE ANTAGONIST; ANGIOTENSIN RECEPTOR ANTAGONIST; BETA ADRENERGIC RECEPTOR BLOCKING AGENT; CANDESARTAN; CAPTOPRIL; CYCLOOXYGENASE 2 INHIBITOR; DIGOXIN; DIPEPTIDYL CARBOXYPEPTIDASE INHIBITOR; DIURETIC AGENT; EPLERENONE; MINERALOCORTICOID ANTAGONIST; NONSTEROID ANTIINFLAMMATORY AGENT; PLACEBO; POTASSIUM; POTASSIUM CANREONATE; SPIRONOLACTONE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; VALSARTAN;

ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; COST EFFECTIVENESS ANALYSIS; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DISEASE SEVERITY; DOSE KIDNEY FUNCTION RELATION; DRUG ANTAGONISM; DRUG COST; DRUG HALF LIFE; FOLLOW UP; GYNECOMASTIA; HEART FAILURE; HORMONE INHIBITION; HORMONE SYNTHESIS; HUMAN; HYPERKALEMIA; IMPOTENCE; LIBIDO DISORDER; MASTALGIA; MENSTRUAL IRREGULARITY; MORTALITY; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PATIENT MONITORING; POTASSIUM BLOOD LEVEL; SYSTEMATIC REVIEW; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ALDOSTERONE ANTAGONISTS; ANGIOTENSIN-CONVERTING ENZYME INHIBITORS; DIURETICS; HEART FAILURE, CONGESTIVE; HUMANS; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIALS; SPIRONOLACTONE;

EID: 21244452715     PISSN: 13824147     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10741-005-2352-2     Document Type: Article

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