isosorbide

Examples

• All

• The combination of nadolol and isosorbide mononitrate is more effective than nadolol alone in preventing variceal bleeding in relatively well patients with cirrhosis.

  Academic text (1996)

• Five patients had to be withdrawn from isosorbide mononitrate treatment because of severe headaches.

  Academic text (1996)

• The probability of death was only slightly lowered by the addition of isosorbide mononitrate in this study because there were few deaths related to bleeding.

  Academic text (1996)

• The cumulative risk of bleeding was lowered by more than 50% in the nadolol plus isosorbide mononitrate group.

  Academic text (1996)

• In patients receiving isosorbide mononitrate, intolerable headache was also judged to be a side effect necessitating cessation of that drug.

  Academic text (1996)

• Patients with side effects related to b-blockers continued with placebo or isosorbide mononitrate, according to randomization; patients with side effects related to isosorbide mononitrate continued on nadolol alone.

  Academic text (1996)

• We aimed to test the effectiveness of isosorbide mononitrate as an adjunct to the beta-blocker nadolol in the prophylaxis of first variceal bleeding in these patients.

  Academic text (1996)

• When the four cases of portal hypertensive gastropathy were combined with variceal bleeding, the risk of bleeding in patients allocated nadolol plus isosorbide mononitrate was also significantly lower than that of patients randomized to nadolol alone.

  Academic text (1996)

• The doctor prescribed isosorbide to prevent the patient's chest pain from angina.

• Patients often take isosorbide to manage symptoms of heart failure effectively.

Synonyms

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Isordil

vsisosorbide

• Specialized

1 8.7

A medicine used to treat chest pain from heart problems

is a generic medication that prevents chest pain and treats some heart failure

Surface Forms

Etymology