Clinical Efficacy of Amlodipine Besylate Combined with Ligusticum on Patients with Both Hypertension and Heart Failure and Their Prognosis and Life Quality

2021 ◽  
Vol 20 (2) ◽  
pp. 276-281
Author(s):  
Rui Mao ◽  
Qi Rong

Heart failure, a frequent complication of hypertension, is the primary risk factor of myocardial infarction. Therefore, it is important to find newer and effective treatments for hypertension comorbid with heart failure. A combination of amlodipine besylate and ligusticum, both known antihypertensives, was evaluated in hypertension complicated with heart failure with the goal of providing improved treatment. To this end, 172 hypertensive patients with heart failure received a conventional therapy or amlodipine besylate combined with ligusticum. Following treatment, all subjects were evaluated for clinical efficacy, safety, blood pressure, cardiac function, vascular endothelial function, and heart failure markers. The two groups were followed up for 1 year, and their prognosis and life quality were investigated. The treatment resulted in improvement in all markers, a higher total effectiveness rate with similar incidence of adverse reactions. Therefore, amlodipine besylate combined with ligusticum may be an effective and safe treatment for hypertension complicated with heart failure.

2019 ◽  
Vol 47 (5) ◽  
pp. 1817-1828 ◽  
Author(s):  
Fei Yang ◽  
Li Na Zhao ◽  
Yi Sun ◽  
Zhuang Chen

The heart is one of the organs most vulnerable to sepsis. This review describes the general characteristics of sepsis-induced cardiomyopathy and the main pathogenesis of myocardial dysfunction in sepsis. Levosimendan is a novel drug for treatment of sepsis-induced myocardial dysfunction. This review also elaborates on the pathogenesis of levosimendan, including the mechanisms of its anti-inflammatory effects, improvement of myocardial ischaemia, increased synthesis of nitric oxide, vascular endothelial cell protection, increased myocardial contractility, improved diastolic function, and inhibition of hypoxia-inducible factor-1α expression. Many clinical studies have proven that levosimendan effectively prevents myocardial dysfunction in sepsis. In addition to the widespread use of levosimendan in patients with heart failure, the role of levosimendan in the treatment of patients with sepsis-induced cardiomyopathy will be increasingly studied and applied in the future.


2018 ◽  
Vol 315 (4) ◽  
pp. R810-R819 ◽  
Author(s):  
Bryce N. Balmain ◽  
Ollie Jay ◽  
Norman R. Morris ◽  
Glenn M. Stewart ◽  
Kenji Shiino ◽  
...  

Heart failure (HF) patients are susceptible to heat strain during exercise, secondary to blunted skin blood flow (SkBF) responses, which may be explained by impaired nitric oxide (NO)-dependent vasodilation. Folic acid improves vascular endothelial function and SkBF through NO-dependent mechanisms in healthy older individuals and patients with cardiovascular disease. We examined the effect of folic acid supplementation (5 mg/day for 6 wk) on vascular function [brachial artery flow-mediated dilation (FMD)] and SkBF responses [cutaneous vascular conductance (CVC)] during 60 min of exercise at a fixed metabolic heat production (300 ẆHprod) in a 30°C environment in 10 patients with HF (New York Heart Association Class I–II) and 10 healthy controls (CON). Serum folic acid concentration increased in HF [preintervention (pre): 1.4 ± 0.2; postintervention (post): 8.9 ± 6.7 ng/ml, P = 0.01] and CON (pre: 1.3 ± 0.6; post: 5.2 ± 4.9 ng/ml, P = 0.03). FMD improved by 2.1 ± 1.3% in HF ( P < 0.01), but no change was observed in CON postintervention ( P = 0.20). During exercise, the external workload performed on the cycle ergometer to attain the fixed level of heat production for exercise was similar between groups (HF: 60 ± 13; CON: 65 ± 20 external workload, P = 0.52). Increases in CVC during exercise were similar in HF (pre: 0.89 ± 0.43; post: 0.83 ± 0.45 au/mmHg, P = 0.80) and CON (pre: 2.01 ± 0.79; post: 2.03 ± 0.72 au/mmHg, P = 0.73), although the values were consistently lower in HF for both pre- and postintervention measurement intervals ( P < 0.05). These findings demonstrate that folic acid improves vascular endothelial function in patients with HF but does not enhance SkBF during exercise at a fixed metabolic heat production in a warm environment.


2001 ◽  
Vol 37 (1) ◽  
pp. 195-200 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ayan R Patel ◽  
Jeffrey T Kuvin ◽  
Natesa G Pandian ◽  
John J Smith ◽  
James E Udelson ◽  
...  

Heart ◽  
2013 ◽  
Vol 99 (Suppl 3) ◽  
pp. A217.3-A218
Author(s):  
Du Qian ◽  
Xin Wang ◽  
Zhiyong Zhang ◽  
Lin Xu ◽  
Jiamei Liu ◽  
...  

2021 ◽  
Vol 7 (6) ◽  
pp. 6572-6584
Author(s):  
Wang Huping ◽  
Wang Shidong ◽  
Rong A ◽  
Xie Xueliang

OBJECTIVE To observe the effect of levosimendan on the clinical efficacy of patients with acute decompensated heart failure (ADHF). METHODS Collected 124 patients with acute decompensated heart failure who were admitted to the cardiology department of our hospital from October 2019 to October 2020. According to the random number table method, they were divided into control group and levosimendan group. The control group was given traditional anti-heart failure treatment, and the levosimendan group was added with levosimendan injection on the basis of the control group. The clinical efficacy indicators, functional indicators, incidence of adverse reactions, mortality during hospitalization, rehospitalization rates and combined endpoint events within 3 months of follow-up were compared before and after treatment. RESULT The results of clinical efficacy comparison showed that the number of significant effective number in the controlgroup was less than that of the levosimendan group, and there was no difference in the number of effective, ineffective and total effective groups; the improvement of dyspnea after treatment in the levosimendan group was better than that of the control group; cardiac color Doppler ultrasound LVEF in control group is higher than Levosimendan group, LVEDV and LVESV are lower than control group; The BNP control group was higher than the levosimendan group. There was no significant difference in renal function between the two groups.The urine output of the control group was less than that of the levosimendan group.There was no statistically significant difference in adverse reactions, rehospitalization rates within 3 months, and mortality between the two groups of patients, and the combined endpoint event (death or rehospitalization) was significantly lower than that of the control group. CONCLUSION Levosimendan in the treatment of patients with acute decompensated heart failure can achieve significant clinical effects, and effectively improve the patient's hemodynamic indicators and increase renal perfusion.With the deepening of the aging of the population in China, the incidence of decompensated heart failure in the elderly population is higher, which seriously affects the normal life. Acute decompensated heart failure (ADHF), a kind of heart disease, is a clinical syndrome characterized by dyspnea with sudden onset and rapid peak based on abnormal heart function (11. It is typical of the late stage of heart disease, usually on the basis of chronic heart failure. The disease is complex and difficult to treat. In addition, the mortality rate of patients is high [2], which endangers the health of patients and threatens their life safety, and is the key disease of current clinical attention. At present, drug therapy is mainly adopted in the clinical treatment to stabilize the hemodynamic level of patients. Clinical practice shows that it is not significantthe to adopt conventional symptomatic treatment effect/which demands a new effective treatment scheme. Levosimendan .a new type of positive inotropic drug, -can increase myocardial contractility and has significant effects in improving heart failure which will reduce mortality, improve the incidence of arrhythmia and bring hope to patients [3]. This study took 124 cases admitted to our hospital as the research object, and analyzed the therapeutic effect of levosimendan. The report are as follows.


2009 ◽  
Vol 11 (6) ◽  
pp. 588-593 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michael Shechter ◽  
Shlomi Matetzky ◽  
Michael Arad ◽  
Micha S. Feinberg ◽  
Dov Freimark

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