Nesiritide

Better treatment selection and improved therapies -- key to improving prognosis in acute HF

...de), peripheral vasodilators (nitrates) and inotropic agents. Even the more recently approved treatments, he added, such as levosimendan in Europe and nesiritide in the USA, have been associated with uncertain effects on outcomes in randomised trials. "So hospitalisations for acute heart failure are still assoc...

Study Supports Controversial Heart Failure Drug

...r other care, over the following 30 days. "The main findings were that nesiritide did not cause renal [kidney] dysfunction in high-risk patents who were hosp...particular context as well as in a particular fashion. I still believe that nesiritide is a very useful drug in the appropriate person." That explanation doesn...

Nesiritide in Medical Technology

Scios Announces Results From Exploratory Nesiritide Study Providing Important New Renal and Mortality Safety Data with a Neutral Effect on the Primary Endpoint

-- Data from Serial Outpatient Infusion Study in Patients with Chronic Decompensated Heart Failure Presented at the American College of Cardiology 56th Annual Scientific Session -- MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. and NEW ORLEANS, March 25, 2007 /PRNewswire/ -- Scios Inc. announced today that an exploratory,...

Everest Data on Short- and Long-Term Use of Otsuka's Investigational Novel Treatment, Tolvaptan, Published in Journal of the American Medical Association and Featured in ACC's Late Breaking Clinical Trials

...ies for their patients, including diuretics, digoxin, ACE inhibitors, angiotensin II receptor blockers, aldosterone blockers, beta-blockers, nitrates, nesiritide and/or hydralazine.(1) "EVEREST adds to the collection of data on tolvaptan and its potential uses," said Kazumichi Kobayashi, Chairman & CEO of...