Zahid Hussain Shah, Khurram Saleem, Atif Masood, Aurangzeb Afzal, Arsalan Haider.
Comparison of first dose hypotension with captopril in hypovolemic & normovolemic patients with cardiac failure.
Pak J Med Health Sci Jan ;5(1):125-8.

The angiotensin converting enzyme inhibitors are the drugs of choice in congestive cardiac failure. The incidence of congestive cardiac failure is rising at the present times. Hundred patients with congestive cardiac failure either newly diagnosed or diagnosed already, but not on ACE therapy, admitted in Medical Units, Mayo Hospital, Lahore, were included in the study. Statistical analysis performed using SPSS 17.0. Results were expressed as mean ± SD. Each continuous parameter between the two groups, patients with hypovolemia/hyponatraemia and patients without hypovolemia/hyponatraemia analyzed with two tailed un-paired student’s t-test. Congestive cardiac failure is a major problem and a common disease. The ACE inhibitors have become standard therapy for heart failure.

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