the monitoring and reporting of adverse drug reactions (adrs) in hospitals aims to identify and quantify the risks associated with the use of drugs. the present study was performed to characterize the rate and the pattern of adrs, due to cardiovascular drugs and anticoagulants, in a tertiary care teaching hospital. for this purpose, all the patients treated with cardiovascular drugs and anticoa...

Cardiovascular drugs are often used in pregnancy for the treatment of maternal and fetal conditions. The complex physiologic changes occurring during pregnancy may significantly affect the pharmacokinetics of many drugs and, consequently, the toxicity and therapeutic response. Of special concern are the effects of maternal therapy on the fetus and the undesired translactal passage of drugs to n...

Titrating cardiovascular drugs is important to ensure efficacy and to minimize the risk of toxicity. A serum assay is extremely useful to guide digoxin therapy. Assessment of the effect of warfarin on blood clotting should be used to adjust dose. Serum cholesterol and lipid measurements guide therapy with antilipemic agents. The antihypertensive drugs, beta blockers, calcium channel blockers, a...