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ReviewJournal of clinical medicine2016

Vasopressin Receptor Antagonists for the Correction of Hyponatremia in Chronic Heart Failure: An Underutilized Therapeutic Option in Current Clinical Practice?

Renato De Vecchis, Claudio Cantatrione, Damiana Mazzei, Cesare Baldi

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Review in Journal of clinical medicine, 2016. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. It has been retracted, and should not be counted. Cited by 1 paper.

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1citing papers in PubMed
0.8field-weighted citation impact, top 23% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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2 · The registry

The trial behind it

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

1 citing paper in PubMed, 7 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

4 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.

Renato De VecchisCardiology Unit, Presidio Sanitario Intermedio "Elena d'Aosta", ASL Napoli 1 Centro, via Cagnazzi 29, 80137 Naples, Italy. devecchis.erre@virgilio.it.
Claudio CantatrioneCardiology Unit, Presidio Sanitario Intermedio "Elena d'Aosta", ASL Napoli 1 Centro, via Cagnazzi 29, 80137 Naples, Italy. corneliagracchi58@gmail.com.
Damiana MazzeiCardiology Unit, Presidio Sanitario Intermedio "Elena d'Aosta", ASL Napoli 1 Centro, via Cagnazzi 29, 80137 Naples, Italy. agrippine268@gmail.com.
Cesare BaldiHeart Department, Interventional Cardiology, Azienda Ospedaliero-Universitaria "San Giovanni di Dio e Ruggi d'Aragona", via San Leonardo 1, 84131 Salerno, Italy. cesare.baldi@tiscali.it.
Presidio Ospedaliero · ITOspedali Riuniti San Giovanni di Dio e Ruggi d'Aragona · IT

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

In the congestive heart failure (CHF) setting, chronic hyponatremia is very common. The present review aims at addressing topics relevant to the pathophysiology of hyponatremia in the course of CHF as well as its optimal treatment, including the main advantages and the limitations resulting from the use of the available dietary and pharmacological measures approved for the treatment of this electrolytic trouble. A narrative review is carried out in order to represent the main modalities of therapy for chronic hyponatremia that frequently complicates CHF. The limits of usual therapies implemented for CHF-related chronic hyponatremia are outlined, while an original analysis of the main advancements achieved with the use of vasopressin receptor antagonists (VRAs) is also executed. The European regulatory restrictions that currently limit the use of VRAs in the management of CHF are substantially caused by financial concerns, i.e., the high costs of VRA therapy. A thoughtful reworking of current restrictions would be warranted in order to enable VRAs to be usefully associated to loop diuretics for decongestive treatment of CHF patients with hyponatremia.

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chronic heart failurehyponatremiavasopressin receptor antagonists

Identifiers

PMID27706088
PMCPMC5086588
OpenAlexW2529468300

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