Sentences with phrase «chest pain drug»

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The number of patients treated with nitroglycerin, a drug used for chest pain and heart failure, increased by 89 percent.

A number of British physicians observed that nitroglycerin rapidly terminated the intense chest pain of angina, and, following the publication of a systematic study in 1879, the drug was adopted for routine medical use.

At the present time, hydroxyurea is the only Food and Drug Administration - approved medication that decreases the number of pain crises and episodes of acute chest syndrome.

Zocor (simvastatin) can't exceed 20 milligrams if it is prescribed with the blood - pressure drug amlodipine, ranolazine for chest pain, or amiodarone, an anti-arrhythmic drug.

But these drugs do not appear to help patients who haven't had a heart attack or have heart failure, even if they did need angioplasty — surgery to clear a blocked artery that caused chest pain, Parikh and his colleagues report.

But hey, that's what drugs are for, so he started taking Viagra, one of the wonders of modern medicine, which also came in handy when he landed in the emergency room with crushing chest pain.

Treated patients suffering from trauma, acute chest pain, respiratory failure, and drug overdoses.