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Upon arrival to the emergency department, a senior emergency physician looked at the ECG and said "Nothing too exciting."

Dr. Smith's ECG Blog

She was defibrillated and resuscitated. associated typical Myocardial Infarction therapies such as statins and ACE inhibitors with significantly decreased 1 year mortality in MINOCA patients, which suggests that they do indeed have a similar pathophysiology to MI patients with obstructive coronary disease. Lindahl et al.

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Understanding an Enlarged Heart (Cardiomegaly): Causes, Symptoms, and Treatment

MIBHS

Medications Medications are often the first line of treatment for cardiomegaly and can include: ACE inhibitors or ARBs , which help lower blood pressure and reduce the workload on the heart. Implantable Cardioverter-Defibrillator (ICD) to help manage dangerous heart rhythms.

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Resynchronising the Heart in Heart Failure

Dr. Sanjay Gupta

We now do have some really good medications that help do both and these include: ACE Inhibitors/Entresto Beta Blockers MRAs – Mineraloreceptor antagonists SGLT2 inhibitors And ideally anyone with heart failure should be on all these medications unless they are intolerant or in some way the medications are contraindicated.

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The Management of Chronic Disease

Dr. Sanjay Gupta

These include ACE inhibitors (and now a medication called Entresto), beta blockers, Mineralocorticoid receptor antagonists and now a new class of anti-diabetic medications called SGLT2 inhibitors and ideally wherever possible the patient should try and take a little of all of them as opposed to taking lots of one and none of the others.