La Revue du praticien
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La Revue du praticien · Dec 1992
Review[What have we learned from converting enzyme inhibitors on renin-angiotensin system?].
Angiotensin-converting-enzyme (ACE) inhibitors are now widely used to treat patients with high blood pressure or heart failure. The favourable results obtained with these inhibitors of the renin-angiotensin system suggest that angiotensin II has a noxious effect on the development and/or course of these diseases. ⋯ Their most severe side-effects are mostly foreseeable and therefore avoidable. Chronic blockade of the renin-angiotensin system increasingly seems to be a good therapeutic approach to the protection of the vital organs.