Why the study?
Does vasodilator therapy improve symptoms and prolong life in patients with congestive heart failure?
Does vasodilator therapy improve symptoms and prolong life in patients with congestive heart failure?
Vasodilator therapy is recognized as an appropriate adjuvant treatment that may prolong life and relieve symptoms in congestive heart failure.
Vasodilator therapy has now gained wide acceptance as appropriate adjuvant drug treatment for congestive heart failure. Although this therapy previously was reserved for relief of persistent symptoms in patients who were already taking digitalis and diuretics, recent data have provided support for the concept that use of these drugs may prolong life in addition to relieving symptoms.¹,²The evidence that systemic
No takes yet. Share an insight, caveat, or question.
Jay N. Cohn (1988) studied this question.
Synapse has enriched 5 closely related papers on similar clinical questions. Consider them for comparative context: