Hemodynamic effect of oral TA-064 after dobutamine in congestive heart failure.

CONGESTIVE HEART FAILURE IN CHILDREN: A SURVEY OF 114 PATIENTS

During a period of four years between June, IS, 1988 to June, IS, 1992 one hundred and fourteen patients with congestive heart failure (CHF) were admitted to the pediatric department of Taleghani General Hospital. During the above period, 192 patients with heart disease were hospitalized at this department and CHF was the cause of admission in 59.4% of them. Congenital heart disease (CHO) w...

Adverse hemodynamic effects of antiarrhythmic drugs in congestive heart failure.

Hemodynamic effects of intravenous butopamine in congestive heart failure.

Butopamine is chemically similar to dobutamine but, unlike dobutamine, it is not a catecholamine. Preclinical studies on dogs show that butopamine is inotropic intravenously and orally. We gave butopamine intravenously to eight patients with congestive heart failure using a progressive dose-response protocol ranging from 0.02 to 0.17 mcg/kg/min. The mean cardiac index and stroke volume index in...

Hemodynamic effects of digoxin on congestive heart failure.

To assess the hemodynamic effects of digoxin (0.01 mg/kg) on congestive heart failure, we evaluated 19 patients with decreased contraction force of left ventricle (old myocardial infarction n = 9, and dilated cardiomyopathy n = 10, group 1) and 8 patients with mechanical impaired left ventricular filing (mitral stenosis n = 8, group 2). In groups 1 and 2, heart rate and pulmonary capillary pres...

THERAPY AND PREVENTION CONGESTIVE HEART FAILURE Sustained-improvement of cardiac function in patients with congestive heart failure after short- term infusion of dobutamine

Fifteen patients with congestive cardiomyopathy (six idiopathic and nine alcoholic) manifested by heart failure (New York Heart Association class III or IV) were randomly assigned to a protocol in which dobutamine (n = 8) or 5% dextrose in water (n = 7) was infused continuously for 72 hr. The dose of dobutamine was titrated to increase cardiac output to twice the baseline values. The patients w...