Role of angiotensin-converting enzyme inhibitors in patients with aortic stenosis

Are angiotensin converting enzyme inhibitors beneficial in patients with aortic stenosis?

Angiotensin converting enzyme (ACE) inhibitors may become an accepted form of treatment for aortic stenosis in the future.

[Medical treatments in aortic stenosis: role of statins and angiotensin-converting enzyme inhibitors].

CALCIFIC AROTIC STENOSIS AND ATHEROSCLEROSIS: Aortic stenosis is the most frequent valvular heart disease in western world and its incidence continues to rise. Aortic sclerosis is the first characteristic lesion of the cusps, which is today considered a process similar to atherosclerosis. The progression of the disease is an active process leading to forming of bone matrix and heavily calcified...

Serum Angiotensin Converting Enzyme in Patients with Psoriasis

Background: Controversial data concerning the elevation of serum angiotensin-converting enzyme in psoriasis are reported in the literature. In order to verify whether this abnormality exists in Iranian patients, we performed this study. Method: Serum angiotensin-converting enzyme level was measured in 40 psoriatics. According to clinical forms of psoriasis, patients were further divided into th...

Angiotensin Converting Enzyme in Sarcoidosis

Angiotensin converting enzyme inhibitors.

The purpose of this brief review is to separate the characteristic properties and side effects attributable to the pharmacology of the whole class of angiotensin converting enzyme (ACE) inhibitors from those attributable to the chemical structure and kinetics of each particular ACE inhibitor. The former would be predictable and probably similar for all agents and, therefore, would be expected t...