Prevention of Renal Dysfunction and Hypertension by Amlodipine After Heart Transplant

American Journal of Cardiology

Volumn 100, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 531-535

  Leenen, Frans H H ^a   Coletta, Elizabeth ^a   Davies, Ross A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OTTAWA HEART INSTITUTE   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMLODIPINE; AZATHIOPRINE; CREATININE; CYCLOSPORIN; DIURETIC AGENT; ENALAPRIL; PLACEBO; PREDNISONE;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BLOOD PRESSURE MONITORING; BLOOD SAMPLING; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; CREATININE CLEARANCE; DIASTOLIC BLOOD PRESSURE; DOUBLE BLIND PROCEDURE; DRUG DOSE INCREASE; DRUG TOLERABILITY; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; GRAFT REJECTION; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE FUNCTION; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE MASS; HEART TRANSPLANTATION; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE TREATMENT; KIDNEY DYSFUNCTION; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RANDOMIZATION; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; SYSTOLIC BLOOD PRESSURE; URINALYSIS;

ADULT; AGED; AMLODIPINE; ANTIHYPERTENSIVE AGENTS; BLOOD PRESSURE; CALCIUM CHANNEL BLOCKERS; CREATININE; CYCLOSPORINE; DOUBLE-BLIND METHOD; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HEART TRANSPLANTATION; HUMANS; HYPERTENSION; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE AGENTS; KIDNEY DISEASES; LIPIDS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; VENTRICULAR FUNCTION, LEFT;

EID: 34447627920     PISSN: 00029149     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.amjcard.2007.03.058     Document Type: Article

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