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Heart Failure
Heart failure medication provides some symptom relief
April 10th, 2007
A medication used to treat heart failure, tolvaptan, appears to improve some symptoms and signs of heart failure during hospitalization, but does not reduce the risk of re-hospitalization or death, according to two articles in the March 28 issue of JAMA. The study is being released early to coincide with its presentation at the American College of Cardiology's annual conference. During the past 2 decades, there have been substantial advances in drug therapy for chronic heart failure (HF), but the number of annual hospitalizations for HF continues to increase, and the risk of death remains high among patients hospitalized with HF, according to background information in...
Source: Life Science Weekly (2007-04-10)
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