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  • Title: [Heart insufficiency and life expectancy--the role of ACE inhibitors].
    Author: Kleber FX.
    Journal: Wien Med Wochenschr; 1990 Jan 31; 140(1-2):50-5. PubMed ID: 2408250.
    Abstract:
    Before efficacy of therapy has been proven in large populations years or decades may pass. Meanwhile the medical profession has to rely on probabilities. This holds true regarding improvement of prognosis of CHF by ACE inhibition. While symptomatic improvement of CHF by addition of ACE-inhibition. While symptomatic improvement of CHF by addition of ACE-inhibitors has been demonstrated in numerous studies, improvement of prognosis has not yet been demonstrated entirely sufficiently. Only one trial has been published so far in a severely ill but not very exactly defined population (66). Animal studies and several small or interim published trials, however, show that the positive influence of ACE-inhibitors on CHF pathophysiology and symptomatology might favourable affect the prognosis as well. The SAVE trial and the SOLVD trial - both have randomized several thousand patients - will give answers concerning the influence of Captopril and Enalapril on prognosis of symptomatic as well as asymptomatic left ventricular dysfunction and on progression of left ventricular dilatation. The VHEFT II trial will compare the effect of ACE-inhibitors with the combination of ISDN and Hydralazine. Results will be available within the first few years of this decade.
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