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The role of aldosterone receptor antagonists in the management of heart failure: An update.
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PMID:  22949344     Owner:  NLM     Status:  In-Data-Review    
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The aldosterone receptor antagonists (ARAs) spironolactone (Aldactone) and eplerenone (Inspra) have become part of standard medical therapy for heart failure, having shown clinical efficacy in randomized trials in patients with advanced symptomatic systolic heart failure, postinfarction heart failure with cardiac dysfunction, and systolic heart failure with mild symptoms. The benefits include a lower rate of death. Yet to be answered is whether the two drugs are clinically equivalent; another question is whether they may benefit everyone with symptomatic heart failure, including diastolic heart failure.
Authors:
Vijaiganesh Nagarajan; Mohammed Chamsi-Pasha; W H Wilson Tang
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Publication Detail:
Type:  Journal Article    
Journal Detail:
Title:  Cleveland Clinic journal of medicine     Volume:  79     ISSN:  1939-2869     ISO Abbreviation:  Cleve Clin J Med     Publication Date:  2012 Sep 
Date Detail:
Created Date:  2012-09-05     Completed Date:  -     Revised Date:  -    
Medline Journal Info:
Nlm Unique ID:  8703441     Medline TA:  Cleve Clin J Med     Country:  United States    
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Languages:  eng     Pagination:  631-9     Citation Subset:  IM    
Affiliation:
Department of Cardiovascular Medicine, J3-4, Cleveland Clinic, 9500 Euclid Avenue, Cleveland, OH 44195; tangw@ccf.org.
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