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[The renin-angiotensin system:implications, pathology, therapeutic possibilities, perspectives]
S D Ionescu1, V Sandru, A Burdujan
1Facultatea de Medicină Clinica a III-a Medicală Cardiologică I. Enescu, Universitatea de Medicină şi Farmacie Gr.T. Popa Iaşi.
Abstract:
The renin-angiotensin system is initiate by numerous pathological situations which release the renal ischemia: heart failure, arterial hypertension, renal pathology with or without diabetes mellitus. Therapeutic possibilities in renin-angiotensin system control are offered by angiotensin-converting enzyme inhibitors, angiotensin II type-1 receptors antagonists, angiotensin converting enzyme inhibitors and neutral endopeptidase inhibitors and angiotensin II type 2 receptors agonists.