Some heart failure clinics are offering outpatients infusions of inotropes, most often with milrinone, despite overwhelming evidence that the drugs are neither safe nor effective, according to a ...
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French centers tested the calcium-sensitizing inotrope levosimendan in patients with severe but potentially reversible cardiogenic shock recently put on VA-ECMO. Early levosimendan did not facilitate ...
AMSTERDAM — Is it twilight for positive inotropic agents for acute heart failure and their daunting risks? Not necessarily, but an investigational drug that increases stroke volume apparently without ...
The investigation was performed in accordance with the Guide for the Care and Use of Laboratory Animals published by the National Institutes of Health (Publication No. 85-23, revised 1996). The study ...