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ReviewCureus2021

Soluble Guanylate Cyclase Stimulators in Heart Failure.

Sajog Kansakar, Ashish Guragain, Deepak Verma, Prabhat Sharma, Bibek Dhungana, Bidit Bhattarai, Sunil Yadav, Nishant Gautam

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Review in Cureus, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 13 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
13citing papers in PubMed, 1 pooled it
1.6field-weighted citation impact, top 15% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

13 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 13 citations in OpenAlex.

  1. Efficacy and safety of vericiguat in heart failure: a meta-analysis.The Journal of international medical research · 2023
    Pooled it
  2. Article
  3. Observational
  4. One Syndrome, Many Faces: A Unified Perspective on Heart Failure Phenotypes.International journal of molecular sciences · 2025
    Review
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  7. Drug Therapy for Acute and Chronic Heart Failure with Preserved Ejection Fraction with Hypertension: A State-of-the-Art Review.American journal of cardiovascular drugs : drugs, devices, and other interventions · 2024
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  8. Article
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  10. New Therapeutics for Heart Failure: Focusing on cGMP Signaling.International journal of molecular sciences · 2023
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

8 authors at 5 institutions in 3 countries.

Sajog KansakarInternal Medicine, Manipal College of Medical Sciences, Pokhara, NPL.
Ashish GuragainInternal Medicine, Manipal College Of Medical Sciences, Pokhara, NPL.
Deepak VermaInternal Medicine/Family Medicine, California Institute of Behavioral Neurosciences and Psychology, Fairfield, USA.
Prabhat SharmaInternal Medicine, Shankarapur Hospital, Kathmandu, NPL.
Bibek DhunganaInternal Medicine, KIST Medical College, Lalitpur, NPL.
Bidit BhattaraiInternal Medicine, Venus Hospital, Kathmandu, NPL.
Sunil YadavInternal Medicine, Topa Primary Health Centre, Rajbiraj, NPL.
Nishant GautamInternal Medicine, Bhaktapur Hospital, Bhaktapur, NPL.
Civil Service Hospital · NPKIST Medical College · NPCalifornia Institute of Behavioral Neurosciences and Psychology (United States) · USManipal College of Medical Sciences · NPPrimary Health Care · QA

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Heart failure has a high global burden of morbidity and mortality. Despite significant advances in medical management of heart failure, the prognosis remains poor. This justifies the search for newer therapeutic agents. Recently, soluble guanylate stimulators have demonstrated favorable results in clinical trials. This article aims to summarize the guanylate cyclase signaling pathway, the role of soluble guanylate cyclase stimulators in heart failure, and data from recent clinical trials of these drugs. We concluded that soluble guanylate cyclase stimulators have significant benefits in reducing hospitalizations in patients with heart failure with reduced ejection fraction that are at high risk of cardiovascular events. There appears to be no benefit of these drugs in patients with heart failure with preserved ejection fraction.

Indexed as

guanylate cyclase stimulatorsheart failureheart failure with preserved ejection fraction (hfpef)heart failure with reduced ejection fraction (hfref)vericiguat

Identifiers

PMID34659992
PMCPMC8494752
OpenAlexW3198792273

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Registered trials

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