Levosimendan seems to provide beneficial effects in terms of improvement in renal function compared to dobutamine in patients with heart failure who require inotropic therapy.
Severe heart failure represents a major source of morbidity and mortality. Poor right ventricular function is an independent prognostic marker for mortality in patients with chronic heart failure. In this study, levosimendan (L) and dobutamine (D) in patients with severe chronic biventricular failure were compared. Forty consecutive patients, who were judged for inotropic therapy by their primary physicians, with acutely decompensated systolic heart failure and having moderate-to-severe right ventricular dysfunction with right ventricular fractional area change of
In this study, LA maximum volume and PA-TDI duration were found to be the independent predictors of the development of POAF after CABG. Echocardiographic predictors of left atrial electromechanical dysfunction may be useful in risk stratifying of patients in terms of POAF development after CABG.
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