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2. List of cardiac pharmaceutical agents - Wikipedia

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   The following are medications commonly prescribed cardiac pharmaceutical agents. The specificity of the following medications is highly variable, and often are not particularly specific to a given class. As such, they are listed as are commonly accepted.

3. Cardiovascular agents - Wikipedia

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   Cardiovascular agents are drugs used to treat diseases associated with the heart or blood vessels. These medications are available for purchase only with a physician’s prescription . They include, but are not limited to, drugs that target hypertension ( antihypertensives ), hyperlipidemia ( antihyperlipidemics ) and blood clotting (blood ...

4. Hydralazine/isosorbide dinitrate - Wikipedia

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   A new paper was published on these findings and MedCo filed for a new patent for the drug as a treatment for heart failure specifically in black patients. [ 4 ] [ 7 ] [ 8 ] The new patent and the old patent were then licensed to a company called NitroMed, which ran a clinical called the African-American Heart Failure Trial (A-HeFT), the results ...

5. Management of heart failure - Wikipedia

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   Sleep apnea is an under-recognized risk factor for heart failure. Uncontrolled sleep apnea may increase the risk of heart failure by up to 140%. [4] Weight reduction – through physical activity and dietary modification, as obesity is a risk factor for heart failure and left ventricular hypertrophy. Effective weight management has been shown ...

6. Milrinone - Wikipedia

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   Milrinone, sold under the brand name Primacor, is a pulmonary vasodilator [2] used in patients who have heart failure.It is a phosphodiesterase 3 inhibitor that works to increase the heart's contractility and decrease pulmonary vascular resistance.

7. Ivabradine - Wikipedia

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   This is relevant in the usage of the medication to treat angina as well as congestive heart failure. This is in contrast to other commonly used rate-reducing medications, such as beta-blockers and calcium channel blockers, which not only reduce heart rate, but also the cardiac contractility. Given the selective decrease in rate without loss of ...

8. Explainer-How does extreme heat affect medicines and those ...

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   - Blood pressure and heart failure medications: Angiotensin converting enzyme (ACE) inhibitors suppress thirst, making it harder to know when to drink more water and increasing the risk of ...

9. PDE3 inhibitor - Wikipedia

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   PDE3 inhibitors are indicated as inotropics for the therapy of acute heart failure if catecholamines are ineffective. [2] Well controlled studies have shown that these drugs generally increase mortality, [3] when used for the therapy of acute heart failure, so they have to be applied under close observation. [1]