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J Am Coll Cardiol, 2008; 51:2276-2285, doi:10.1016/j.jacc.2008.03.015 (Published online 8 April 2008).
© 2008 by the American College of Cardiology Foundation
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Mihai Gheorghiade, MD, FACC*,*, John E.A. Blair, MD*, Gerasimos S. Filippatos, MD, FACC{dagger}, Cezar Macarie, MD{ddagger}, Witold Ruzyllo, MD§, Jerzy Korewicki, MD§, Serban I. Bubenek-Turconi, MD, Maurizio Ceracchi, MS||, Maria Bianchetti, PhD||, Paolo Carminati, MD||, Dimitrios Kremastinos, MD{dagger}, Giovanni Valentini, MD||, Hani N. Sabbah,, PhD, FACC# for the HORIZON-HF Investigators

* Feinberg School of Medicine, Northwestern University, Chicago, Illinois
{dagger} University Hospital Attikon, Athens, Greece
{ddagger} National Institute of Cardiovascular Disorders, Bucharest, Romania
§ National Institute of Cardiology, Warsaw, Poland
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Figure 1 Enrollment

*The imbalance in number of patients (29 instead of 30 in the 0.5 µg/kg/min group) is due to an assignment error. INR = International Normalized Ratio for Prothrombin Time; PCWP = pulmonary capillary wedge pressure.

 

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Figure 2 Invasive Hemodynamics Over the Course of Infusion

Pulmonary capillary wedge pressure (PCWP), cardiac index (CI), mean right atrial pressure (RAP), and stroke work index (SWI), plotted over the time course of treatment with placebo (purple) or istaroxime 0.5 µg/kg/min (blue), 1.0 µg/kg/min (red), and 1.5 µg/kg/min (green). The p values refer to the main effect, by repeated-measures analysis.

 

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Figure 3 Noninvasive Hemodynamic Parameters Over the Course of Infusion

Systolic blood pressure (SBP), diastolic blood pressure (DBP), mean arterial pressure (MAP), and heart rate (HR), plotted over the time course of treatment with placebo (purple) or istaroxime 0.5 µg/kg/min (blue), 1.0 µg/kg/min (red), and 1.5 µg/kg/min (green). The p values refer to the main effect, by repeated-measures analysis.

 

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Figure 4 Hemodynamics After Infusion

The p values refer to the comparison of each dose versus placebo. Abbreviations as in Figures 1 to 3.

 

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Figure 5 Left Ventricular Volumes After Infusion

The p values refer to the comparison of each dose versus placebo. LVEDV = left ventricular end-diastolic volume; LVEF = left ventricular ejection fraction; LVESV = left ventricular end-systolic volume.

 




 
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