Chronic heart failure

Active Ingredient: Losartan

Indication for Losartan

Population group: only adults (18 years old or older)

Treatment of chronic heart failure in adult patients when treatment with Angiotensin-converting enzyme (ACE) inhibitors is not considered suitable due to incompatibility, especially cough, or contraindication. Patients with heart failure who have been stabilised with an ACE inhibitor should not be switched to losartan. The patients should have a left ventricular ejection fraction ≤40% and should be clinically stable and on an established treatment regimen for chronic heart failure.

For this indication, competent medicine agencies globally authorize below treatments:

12.5-150 mg once daily

Route of admnistration

Oral

Defined daily dose

12.5 - 150 mg

Dosage regimen

From 12.5 To 150 mg once every day

Detailed description

The usual initial dose of losartan in patients with heart failure is 12.5 mg once daily. The dose should generally be titrated at weekly intervals (i.e. 12.5 mg daily, 25 mg daily, 50 mg daily, 100 mg daily, up to a maximum dose of 150 mg once daily) as tolerated by the patient.

Dosage considerations

Losartan may be administered with or without food.

Active ingredient

Losartan

Losartan is a synthetic oral angiotensin-II receptor (type AT1) antagonist. Antihypertensive activity and suppression of plasma aldosterone concentration are maintained, indicating effective angiotensin II receptor blockade.

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