Experience of a vasopressin receptor antagonist, tolvaptan, under the unique indication in Japanese heart failure patients

Clinical Pharmacology and Therapeutics

Volumn 94, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 449-451

  Kinugawa, K ^a   Imamura, T ^a   Komuro, I ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ARGIPRESSIN; FUROSEMIDE; PLACEBO; SODIUM; TOLVAPTAN;

AREA UNDER THE CURVE; DIURETIC THERAPY; DRUG INDICATION; DRUG RESPONSE; GLOMERULUS FILTRATION RATE; HEART FAILURE; HUMAN; HYPONATREMIA; JAPANESE; KIDNEY BLOOD FLOW; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECEIVER OPERATING CHARACTERISTIC; REVIEW; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SODIUM BLOOD LEVEL; URINE OSMOLALITY; URINE VOLUME; WATER ABSORPTION;

ANTIDIURETIC AGENTS; BENZAZEPINES; HEART FAILURE; HUMANS; JAPAN; OSMOLAR CONCENTRATION; RECEPTORS, VASOPRESSIN;

EID: 84884501178     PISSN: 00099236     EISSN: 15326535     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/clpt.2013.147     Document Type: Review

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