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SUBMITTER: Levy PD
PROVIDER: S-EPMC4023865 | biostudies-literature | 2014 Jun
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Current emergency and hospital medicine reports 20140601 2
Vasodilators play an important role in the management of acute heart failure, particularly when increased afterload is the precipitating cause of decompensation. The time-honored approach to afterload reduction has been largely focused on use of intravenous nitrovasodilators and, when properly dosed, this class of agents does provide substantial symptom relief for patients with acute hypertensive heart failure. Despite this, nitrovasodilators have never been shown to diminish mortality or provid ...[more]