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Comparative pharmacology of cardiac and vascular tissues in heart failure
1Laboratoire de Pharmacodynamie Générale et de Pharmacologie, Université Catholique de Louvain, Brussels, Belgium.
Journal of Cardiovascular Pharmacology
|January 1, 1989
Abstract:
The purpose of this paper is to review various factors of the control of cardiac contractility and of vascular tone that may be altered in heart failure and that are targets for pharmacotherapeutic interventions. This paper is divided into three main sections: pathophysiological aspects of heart failure, differences in the regulation of cardiac contraction and of vascular tone, and pharmacological principles in the management of heart failure.