Spironolactone for heart failure with preserved ejection fraction.

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Published in N Engl J Med on April 10, 2014

Authors

Bertram Pitt1, Marc A Pfeffer, Susan F Assmann, Robin Boineau, Inder S Anand, Brian Claggett, Nadine Clausell, Akshay S Desai, Rafael Diaz, Jerome L Fleg, Ivan Gordeev, Brian Harty, John F Heitner, Christopher T Kenwood, Eldrin F Lewis, Eileen O'Meara, Jeffrey L Probstfield, Tamaz Shaburishvili, Sanjiv J Shah, Scott D Solomon, Nancy K Sweitzer, Song Yang, Sonja M McKinlay, TOPCAT Investigators

Author Affiliations

1: From the University of Michigan School of Medicine, Ann Arbor (B.P.); the Cardiovascular Division, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston (M.A.P., B.C., A.S.D., E.F.L., S.D.S.); New England Research Institutes, Watertown, MA (S.F.A., B.H., C.T.K., S.M.M.); National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute, Bethesda, MD (R.B., J.L.F., S.Y.); Veterans Affairs Medical Center and University of Minnesota, Minneapolis (I.S.A.); Hospital de Clinicas de Porto Alegre, Porto Alegre, Brazil (N.C.); Estudios Clinicos Latinoamerica, Rosario, Argentina (R.D.); Pirogov Russian National Research Medical University, Moscow (I.G.); New York Methodist Hospital, Brooklyn (J.F.H.); Montreal Heart Institute, Montreal (E.O.); University of Washington Medical Center, Seattle (J.L.P.); Diagnostic Services Clinic, Tbilisi, Georgia (T.S.); Northwestern University, Chicago (S.J.S.); and the University of Wisconsin, Madison (N.K.S.).

Associated clinical trials:

Aldosterone Antagonist Therapy for Adults With Heart Failure and Preserved Systolic Function (TOPCAT) | NCT00094302

Characterization of Myocardial Interstitial Fibrosis and Cardiomyocyte Hypertrophy by Cardiac MRI in Heart Failure | NCT03084679

Mechanisms and Management of Exercise Intolerance in Older Heart Failure Patients | NCT03111017

Radiofrequency (RF) Ablation for Atrial Fibrillation (AF) in Patients With Heart Failure With Preserved Ejection Fraction (AF-HFpEF) | NCT04327596

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