Cardiovascular Drugs
Cardiovascular medication, any agent which affects heart and blood vessel function.
Drugs which affect the
cardiovascular system are among the most widely used in medicine. Examples of conditions where these medications may be useful include
hypertension ( high blood pressure), angina pectoris (chest pain arising from insufficient blood flow through the coronary arteries to the heart muscle),
heart failure (insufficient heart muscle production compared to the needs of the rest of the body), and arrhythmias (cardiac rhythm disturbances).
Drugs affect the heart function in three principal ways. They may affect the force of heart muscle contraction (inotropic effects); they may affect heart beat frequency, or heart rate (chronotropic effects); or they may affect heart beat regularity (rhythmic effects).
High Impact List of Articles
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Typical atrioventricular nodal reentrant and orthodromic atrioventricular tachycardias: electrocardiographic, electrophysiological diagnosis and treatment
Rose Mary Ferreira Lisboa da Silva & Leonardo Roever
Review Article: Interventional Cardiology
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Typical atrioventricular nodal reentrant and orthodromic atrioventricular tachycardias: electrocardiographic, electrophysiological diagnosis and treatment
Rose Mary Ferreira Lisboa da Silva & Leonardo Roever
Review Article: Interventional Cardiology
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Highlights from the latest articles in chronic total occlusion percutaneous coronary intervention
AJ Bagnall & R Paranamana
Research Highlights: Interventional Cardiology
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Highlights from the latest articles in chronic total occlusion percutaneous coronary intervention
AJ Bagnall & R Paranamana
Research Highlights: Interventional Cardiology
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Complications and safety of jugular and azygous angioplasty in CCSVI patients with multiple sclerosis
L Varatharajan, TRA Lane, A Thapar, IJ Franklin & AH Davies
Review Article: Interventional Cardiology
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Complications and safety of jugular and azygous angioplasty in CCSVI patients with multiple sclerosis
L Varatharajan, TRA Lane, A Thapar, IJ Franklin & AH Davies
Review Article: Interventional Cardiology
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Iliac artery revascularization: overview of current interventional therapies
C Lam, RT Gandhi, G Vatakencherry & BT Katzen
Review Article: Interventional Cardiology
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Iliac artery revascularization: overview of current interventional therapies
C Lam, RT Gandhi, G Vatakencherry & BT Katzen
Review Article: Interventional Cardiology
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David R Holmes Jr speaks to Laura Dormer, Editor
DR Holmes Jr
Editor\'s Note: Interventional Cardiology
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David R Holmes Jr speaks to Laura Dormer, Editor
DR Holmes Jr
Editor\'s Note: Interventional Cardiology
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