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A genotype-directed comparative effectiveness trial of Bucindolol and metoprolol succinate for prevention of symptomatic atrial fibrillation/atrial flutter in patients with heart failure: Rationale and design of the GENETIC-AF trial.
American heart journal - 1 May 2018
Piccini Jonathan P, Connolly Stuart J, Abraham William T, Healey Jeff S, Steinberg Benjamin A, Al-Khalidi Hussein R, Dignacco Patricia, van Veldhuisen Dirk J, Sauer William H, White Michel, Wilton Stephen B, Anand Inder S, Dufton Christopher, Marshall Debra A, Aleong Ryan G, Davis Gordon W, Clark Richard L, Emery Laura L, Bristow Michael R
Abstract excerpt
BACKGROUND: Few therapies are available for the safe and effective treatment of atrial fibrillation (AF) in patients with heart failure. Bucindolol is a non-selective beta-blocker with mild vasodilator activity previously found to have accentuated antiarrhythmic effects and increased efficacy for preventing heart failure events in patients homozygous for the major allele of the ADRB1 Arg389Gly polymorphism (ADRB1...
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