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| Year : 2019 | Volume
: 51
| Issue : 6 | Page : 413-415 |
Is there a place for angiotensin receptor-neprilysin inhibitors in the treatment of heart failure patients after heart transplantation?
Dario Gulin1, Zrinka Planinic2, Jasna Cerkez Habek3, Jozica Sikic1
1 Department of Cardiovascular Diseases, University Hospital “Sveti Duh”; University of Zagreb School of Medicine, Zagreb, Croatia
2 Department of Cardiovascular Diseases, University Hospital “Sveti Duh”, Zagreb, Croatia
3 Department of Cardiovascular Diseases, University Hospital “Sveti Duh”; Croatian Catholic University, Zagreb, Croatia
Correspondence Address:
Dr. Dario Gulin
Department of Cardiovascular Diseases, University Hospital “Sveti Duh”, Sveti Duh 64, 10000 Zagreb
Croatia
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DOI: 10.4103/ijp.IJP_562_18
We present a case report of a heart failure patient after heart transplantation due to end-stage ischemic cardiomyopathy with significant clinical and echocardiographic improvement 3 months after the introduction of sacubitril/valsartan, an angiotensin receptor-neprilysin inhibitor. This new class of drugs is proved to be beneficial in heart failure patients, especially with reduced ejection fraction (HFrEF), but they have not yet been used in heart failure patients after heart transplantation. We believe that the increase of left ventricular systolic function, improvement of global longitudinal strain, and reduction of pulmonary hypertension with consequent clinical recovery in our patient may have been caused by sacubitril/valsartan.
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