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The Treatment of Heart Failure
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The Treatment of Heart Failure

Abstract

In this article literature concerning the major drugs used in the treatment of heart failure is reviewed. Because of major discrepancies in results from short term and uncontrolled studies versus long term randomised control trials, only the latter group of studies are addressed in detail. Of 3 randomised control trials of digoxin, 1 has been positive, and 2 negative. Digoxin is probably of benefit to a minority of heart failure patients. Four …

Authors

Guyatt GH

Journal

Drugs, Vol. 32, No. 6, pp. 538–568

Publisher

Springer Nature

Publication Date

December 1986

DOI

10.2165/00003495-198632060-00004

ISSN

0012-6667