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Calcium Antagonists in Patients Undergoing Coronary Artery Bypass Surgery

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Coronary Artery Graft Disease

Abstract

Calcium antagonists have demonstrated efficacy in cardiovascular medicine with clear antihypertensive, antiarrhythmic, and anti-ischemic properties. Due to the widespread use of calcium antagonists for patients with hypertension, arrhythmias, and ischemic heart disease, many patients who are undergoing coronary bypass surgery are often taking these medications. There are also several potential indications to initiate calcium antagonist therapy before, during, or after coronary bypass surgery and these will be addressed in this chapter under the following subheadings:

  1. 1.

    Antihypertensive therapy

  2. 2.

    Anti-arrhythmic therapy

  3. 3.

    Anti-ischemic therapy

  4. 4.

    Anti-atherosclerotic therapy

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  1. Abteilung Kardiologie, Inselspital, 3010, Bern, Switzerland

    Thomas F. Lüscher

  2. Herz-Gefäßchirurgie, Universitätsspital, 8091, Zürich, Switzerland

    Marko Turina

  3. Department of Medicine, Harvard University and Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Boston, MA, 02115-6195, USA

    Eugene Braunwald

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Gottlieb, S.O. (1994). Calcium Antagonists in Patients Undergoing Coronary Artery Bypass Surgery. In: Lüscher, T.F., Turina, M., Braunwald, E. (eds) Coronary Artery Graft Disease. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-78637-2_19

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