• Cardiology · Jan 1985

    Review

    Beta-adrenergic blockade. An update.

    • W H Frishman and M Teicher.
    • Cardiology. 1985 Jan 1; 72 (5-6): 280-96.

    Abstractbeta-Adrenergic blockade represents a major pharmacologic advance. These drugs bind to membrane adrenergic receptors interfering with the effects of endogenous catecholamines. Eight beta-blockers are available in the United States, and others are being studied. The drugs have varying pharmacodynamic properties that may modify certain side effects: beta 1-selectivity, partial agonism, alpha-adrenergic blocking activity, membrane stabilization, and varying pharmacokinetic characteristics. The drugs have been shown to be relatively safe and useful for a wide variety of cardiovascular and noncardiovascular disease states, and their wide spectrum of therapeutic activity illustrates the importance of the sympathetic nervous system in the pathophysiology of medical illness.

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