https://doi.org/10.4081/monaldi.2021.1806
Through the heart and beyond: a review on ranolazine
Submitted: February 15, 2021
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Published: September 9, 2021
Accepted: June 25, 2021
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Ranolazine derives from piperazine and has been approved as a drug for the therapy of chronic stable angina. It acts by selectively inhibiting the late sodium inward current. Moreover, ranolazine has other metabolic features which makes it effective in other diseases as well as coronary artery ones. In this paper I make an updated review of all possible therapeutic roles of ranolazine: through cardiology and beyond.
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Uran, Carlo. 2021. “Through the Heart and Beyond: A Review on Ranolazine”. Monaldi Archives for Chest Disease 92 (1). https://doi.org/10.4081/monaldi.2021.1806.
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