Angiotensin-Converting Enzyme Inhibitors: Scientific Basis for Clinical Use

by Lionel H. Opie

About the Book ACE inhibitors are justly regarded as the most important advance in cardiac drug therapy since the advent of calcium channel antagonist drugs. Acting basically as inhibitors of the renin-angiotensin vasoconstrictor system, these agents have grown in importance to become among the therapeutic agents first choice for hypertension and a cornerstone of therapy in congestive heart failure. Recent studies show that they can also prevent overt...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0471111953
• ISBN13: 9780471111955
• Release Date: December 1994
• Publisher: Wiley-Liss
• Length: 309 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 4.8" x 9.9"