Does eplerenone provide early clinical benefit in patients with heart failure and reduced ejection fraction?
Eplerenone provides early clinical benefits in HFrEF patients, supporting its rapid initiation as part of guideline-directed medical therapy.
Eplerenone provides statistically significant and clinically meaningful benefits shortly after treatment initiation in most patients, irrespective of clinical profile. This result reinforces the need for an early initiation of eplerenone in HFrEF, as part of rapidly instituting guideline-directed medical therapy.
Monzo et al. (Tue,) studied this question.