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Heart failure update
Author(s) -
Gomes Uta C.S.,
Cleland John G.F.
Publication year - 1999
Publication title -
european journal of heart failure
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 5.149
H-Index - 133
eISSN - 1879-0844
pISSN - 1388-9842
DOI - 10.1016/s1388-9842(99)00040-9
Subject(s) - medicine , heart failure , inotrope , myocardial infarction , levosimendan , cardiology , hotline , session (web analytics) , intensive care medicine , telecommunications , world wide web , computer science
Abstract The RUSSLAN study, which randomised 504 patients with post‐infarction heart failure in whom intravenous inotropic support might be deemed appropriate, was presented for the first time in a hotline session at the annual meeting of the Working Group on Heart Failure of the European Society of Cardiology. The study suggested that levosimendan, a new calcium sensitising agent, could be used safely in patients with post‐infarction heart failure in the absence of severe hypotension and that it appeared to improve symptoms and survival. If these results can be confirmed it would render it unique among intravenous inotropic agents.