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  • Eric Topol calls into question the use of nesiritide for heart failure

    New England Journal of Medicine 2009

  • As reported by heartwire, the trial randomized patients with history of repeated heart-failure hospitalizations to receive or not receive serial outpatient infusions of nesiritide, which made no apparent difference to clinical outcomes, including rehospitalization.

    theHeart.org 2009

  • One reason, its investigators believed, was that both patient groups received the same superb background medical therapy and frequent contact with a heart-failure management team, masking any potential nesiritide-related benefits.

    theHeart.org 2009

  • (nesiritide), the first new drug for congestive heart failure in more than a decade, and guided Scios through its $2.4 billion merger with Johnson &

    The Earth Times Online Newspaper 2010

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