Cardiac failure angiotensin-converting enzyme

Angiotensin converting enzyme (ACE) plays a central role in cardiovascular hemostasis. Its major function is the generation of angiotensin (ANG) II from ANGI and the degradation of bradykinin. Both peptides have profound impact on the cardiovascular system and beyond. ACE inhibitors are used to decrease blood pressure in hypertensive patients, to improve cardiac function, and to reduce work load of the heart in patients with cardiac failure. 

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Clinical effects In HF patients, digoxin has been proven to reduce symptoms, improve NYHA class, increase exercise time, modestly increase LVEE enhance cardiac output, and decrease HF hospitalizations (56,57). The Randomized Assessment of Digoxin on Inhibitors of the Angiotensin-Converting Enzyme (RADIANCE) (58) and Prospective Randomized study Of Ventricular Failure and the Efficacy of Digoxin (PROVED) (59) trials demonstrated that these beneficial effects are lost when digoxin is withdrawn from the medical therapy. Digoxin withdrawal has been associated... 

Angiotensin antagonists (Angiotensin-converting enzyme inhibitors) and ACE inhibitors lower blood pressure and are used to treat heart failure by causing the excretion of sodium and water. ACE inhibitors block the release of aldosterone. Aldosterone causes the retention of sodium. Cardiac output and heart rate remain unchanged. ACE inhibitors are administered to patients with elevated serum rennin levels. ACE inhibitors can cause angioedema in which the mouth, throat, lips, eyelids, hands, and feet swell. 

Flosequinan is a vasodilator. Vasodilators in combination with an angiotensin-converting enzyme (ACE) inhibitor have been used in congestive heart failure. The vasodilators may be classified as venodilators, arterial dilators, or balanced-type vasodilators (Table 26). The rationale for vasodilation in the management of CHF is based on the increased arteriolar vasotone that occurs. This initiates a vicious circle in which cardiac function is further depressed by an increase in afterload and in resistance to ejection. 

Diuretics and angiotensin-converting enzyme (ACE) inhibitors decrease cardiac output, dLYP/d, and end-diastolic pressure-volume relationships in normals but change these parameters, little, in heart failure patients. Studies in normals depend principally on decreasing preload, and effects on patients with diseases that increase preload would be/may be ntissed. 

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