Vasodilators: Types and Side Effects - Cleveland Clinic
WEBVasodilators are medicines that dilate (open) your blood vessels. Vasodilators keep your arteries and veins from narrowing or contracting (squeezing) shut. You have two main types of blood vessels. Veins carry blood to your heart, while arteries carry blood from your heart to the rest of your body. Advertisement.
Vasodilators - Mayo Clinic
WEBAug 9, 2023 · Vasodilators are medicines that open, also called dilate, blood vessels. Vasodilators affect the muscles in the walls of the arteries and veins. They prevent the muscles from tightening and the walls from narrowing. As a result, blood flows more easily through the vessels. The heart doesn't have to pump as hard.
List of Vasodilators - Drugs.com
WEBVasodilators are medicines that dilate (widen) blood vessels, allowing blood to flow more easily through. Some act directly on the smooth muscle cells lining the blood vessels. Other have a central effect, and regulate blood pressure most likely through the vasomotor center located within the medulla oblongata of the brain.
Vasodilators: Types, Administration, Side Effects - Verywell Health
WEBSep 18, 2023 · How They Work. Types. Uses. Administration. Side Effects. Vasodilators are a class of medication that dilate arteries and/or veins. This results in increased blood flow and lowered blood pressure. Vasodilators are commonly used to treat high blood pressure (hypertension) and heart conditions.
Vasodilators - StatPearls - NCBI Bookshelf
WEBAug 14, 2023 · Vasodilators are useful in the management of hypertension, angina, heart failure, myocardial infarction, and more. This activity reviews the indications, actions, and contraindications for vasodilation therapy as a valuable agent in the treatment of hypertension and other related disorders.
Vasodilators - Types, Side Effects & Precautions - Everyday Health
WEBDec 1, 2015 · Vasodilators are a group of medicines that dilate (open) blood vessels, which allows blood to flow more easily. They're used to treat or prevent: High blood pressure (hypertension) Heart...
Learning About Vasodilators | Kaiser Permanente
WEBVasodilators are a type of medicine that help widen blood vessels. They can lower blood pressure. And they make it easier for the heart to pump blood. They are used to treat certain health problems. These include heart failure and high blood pressure. When used with other medicines for heart failure, they may help relieve symptoms.
Vasodilators - Physiopedia
WEBVasodilators are medicines that dilate blood vessels allowing blood to flow more easily through. They are useful in the management of hypertension, angina, heart failure, myocardial infarction, and more.
Vasodilators | Treatment & Management | Point of Care - StatPearls
WEBAug 14, 2023 · Indications. Vasodilators are useful in treating a variety of medical conditions, most commonly systemic hypertension. [1] . Other diseases include myocardial infarction (both ST-segment elevation and non-ST-segment elevation), angina, heart failure, stroke, chronic kidney disease, preeclampsia, hypertensive emergency.
Heart Failure and Blood Vessel Dilators - WebMD
WEBJun 30, 2023 · Medicines that make your blood vessels get wider are called vasodilators. They’re used to treat heart failure and control high blood pressure because they cause your blood vessels to relax so that...
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