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Levosimendan compared to dobutamine for decompensated heart failure  -  May 2, 2007
News-Medical.net,Dobutamine improves symptoms but has been associated with an increased risk of death and other cardiovascular events, according to background information in

New Drug Fails to Improve Odds for Heart Failure Patients  -  May 1, 2007
Forbes,Dobutamine is a beta blocker that has been found to improve symptoms, but it has also been associated with an increased risk of death and cardiovascular

SURVIVE in print: No short- or long-term survival benefit from ...  -  May 9, 2007
TheHeart.Org,But in a randomized mortality trial comparing levosimendan with dobutamine, one- and six-month outcomes—which also included various objective and subjective

Plug Gets Pulled on Heart Failure Drug  -  May 2, 2007
MedPage Today,All-cause mortality was 26% in the levosimendan arm versus 28% in the dobutamine arm despite the fact that levosimendan treatment was associated with a

Heart drug didn't beat best care  -  May 1, 2007
United Press International...maintain adequate blood circulation -- researchers saw no difference between those given intravenous levosimendan or the standard of care, dobutamine.

Impact of Stress Test Selection on Chest Pain Observation Unit ...  -  Apr 27, 2007
AEM (subscription)The objective of this study was to assess the impact of the type of stress test performed [nuclear stress test (NUC), exercise (ExECHO) and dobutamine

What's real, what's not about heart transplants  -  May 4, 2007
Los Angeles Times,Intravenous-only medications, such as dobutamine (an inotropic agent that helps a failing heart contract more strongly), are generally used intermittently,

Research from the Netherlands and the United States has provided ...  -  Apr 5, 2007
Therapeutics Daily (subscription) (press release),According to recent research published in the American Journal of Cardiology, "Dobutamine stress echocardiography is an accepted tool for the diagnosis of

Acute in vivo evaluation of a new stentless mitral valve  -  Mar 29, 2007
The Journal of Thoracic and Cardiovascular SurgeryBoth configurations had low transvalvular pressure (mean 2.1 ± 1.2 mm Hg at rest; 2.2 ± 1.0 mm Hg with dobutamine stimulation with flap chordae;

Conditional Cardiovascular Response to Growth Hormone Therapy in ...  -  Apr 4, 2007
Journal of Clinical Endocrinology and Metabolism,Methods: Determination of IGF-I, metabolic parameters, echocardiography, and cardioscintigraphy with dobutamine stimulation was made during 12 months GH

New perspectives on vasoactive therapy in heart failure management  -  Apr 2, 2007
TheHeart.Org,..."Two decades ago, people were proposing dobutamine tune ups for these patients because they were congested and had multiple hospital admissions and

Extracorporeal life support: An effective and noninvasive way to ...  -  Mar 29, 2007
The Journal of Thoracic and Cardiovascular SurgeryInotropic support with norepinephrine and dobutamine was also started. Adequate unloading of the left and right-sided heart chambers was assessed with a

Women with heart disease may be overlooked in EDs  -  Feb 20, 2007
JEMS.com,Similarly, when a registration clerk felt weak and dizzy with slight chest tightness while working in the ED, she was sent for a dobutamine stress test,

Dobutamine stress echo is of similar prognostic value for patients ...  Oct 12, 2006
Dobutamine stress echocardiography is of similar prognostic value for patients using two types of beta-blockers. A recent report ... -Therapeutics Daily (subscription) (press release), Research Summary: Viagra Heart Study  Nov 3, 2006
The patients were given two injections over a three-hour period of dobutamine -- a drug that increases heart rate and the strength with which the heart pumps. ... -abc7news.com, Nesiritide use by clinicians fell fast after negative reports ...  Oct 20, 2006
Some nesiritide proponents have expressed concern that reduced nesiritide use in ADHF would be accompanied by greater reliance on dobutamine and other ... -TheHeart.Org, Administering drugs in neonates  Oct 25, 2006
Continuous IV infusions: Drugs for continuous infusion such as adrenaline, diamorphine, dobutamine, dopamine, doxapram, glyceryl trinitrate, hydrocortisone ... -Express Pharma, Effects of papaverine and carbon dioxide alone or in combination ...  Oct 26, 2006
Cracowski JL, Stanke-Labesque F, Chavanon O, Blin D, Mallion JM, Bessard G, Devillier P. Vasorelaxant actions of enoximone, dobutamine, and the combination on ... -The Journal of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery Study rejects girls' excuse for smoking  Oct 24, 2006
Her research suggests that women (or at least some women) should undergo different testing than men -- dobutamine echocardiography instead of traditional angio ... -Globe and Mail, Test on viability of heart muscle identifies patients who will ...  Sep 5, 2006
The ultrasound technique that was used to detect viable heart-muscle is called dobutamine echocardiography (cardiac ultrasound). ... -News-Medical.net

VIAMI: Post-thrombolytic PCI guided by viability testing cuts ...  Sep 5, 2006
Barcelona, Spain - Percutaneous revascularization of residual viable myocardium identified by dobutamine echocardiography after acute-MI thrombolytic therapy ... -TheHeart.Org

Ultrasound targets angioplasty  Sep 6, 2006
...guided angioplasty after acute myocardial infarction) study, involved the administration of the heart stimulant drug (dobutamine) during echocardiograms to ... -News-Medical.net

Take Heart with Viagra  Aug 30, 2006
It was observed the heart rate increased by dobutamine dropped by nearly 50% for patients who were given Viagra. Researchers determined ... -HeartZine

Viagra For Your Heart?  Aug 16, 2006
The patients were given two injections over a three-hour period of dobutamine -- a drug that increases heart rate and the strength with which the heart pumps. ... -WFtv.com

Left ventricular function during CE-DSE predicts future cardiac ...  Aug 17, 2006
Quantitative assessment of left ventricular function during contrast-enhanced dobutamine stress echocardiography predicts future cardiac events in diabetic ... -Therapeutics Daily (subscription)

Prognostic Stratification of Obese Patients by Stress 99m Tc ...  Aug 1, 2006
Methods: We studied 265 patients with a body mass index greater than 30 kg/m 2 by exercise or dobutamine stress 99m Tc-tetrofosmin myocardial perfusion ... -Journal of Nuclear Medicine (subscription)

New ACC appropriateness criteria guide use of CT, MR for cardiac ...  Aug 11, 2006
Indications deemed "inappropriate" included detection of symptomatic CAD using MR, MR coronary angiography, perfusion, or dobutamine stress function MR. ... -TheHeart.Org

Stress Imaging Tests Predict Prognosis of Heart Disease in Obese ...  Aug 9, 2006
The research team from the Netherlands used stress testing with exercise or a pharmacologic stress agent (dobutamine in conjunction with radiolabeled ... -DOTmed.com

Dynamic left ventricular outflow tract obstruction induced by ...  Jun 30, 2006
Left ventricular outflow tract (LVOT) obstruction occurring during dobutamine stress echocardiography (DSE) occurs in approximately 15-20% of patients ... -HeartZine

New Developments in Sepsis  Jul 21, 2006
...interventions were applied to normalize this value: supplemental oxygen, transfusion of red blood cells, and augmentation of cardiac output by dobutamine. ... -Medscape (subscription)

Viagra may be of help to heart disease patients  Jul 7, 2006
In the study, 35 healthy male and female volunteers were given a drug called dobutamine, which stimulates the heart much as the natural hormone, adrenalin, does ... -Baltimore Sun

Growth factor therapy grows, despite limited insight  Jun 21, 2006
Functional outcome was determined using the tagged cardiac magnetic resonance imaging method at rest and under dobutamine stress. ... -European Journal of Cardio-Thoracic Surgery (subscription)

Blood and Water  Jul 6, 2006
Existing drugs such as Lasix, a water-draining diuretic, and new entries Natrecor and dobutamine haven't been tested in major trials or are suspected of ... -Forbes

Is Viagra, the erectile dysfunction drug, good for the heart, too?  Jul 3, 2006
In the study, 35 healthy male and female volunteers were given a drug called dobutamine, which stimulates the heart much as the natural hormone, adrenalin, does ... -Boston Globe



Findings from Sweden, Denmark and the United States in imaging ...  May 15, 2006
RTP-adenosine stress echocardiography (ASE) could be an alternative to dobutamine-atropine stress echocardiography; more tolerable for the patients and ... - Therapeutics Daily (subscription)

Reports advance knowledge in imaging research  Apr 24, 2006
Study 1: In selected patients undergoing dobutamine stress myocardial perfusion imaging, assessment of perfusion and function is effective in risk ... - Therapeutics Daily (subscription)

$200,000 Grant Funds Emphysema Research  Apr 17, 2006
She and three other university professors will examine the effects of exercise and the drug dobutamine on preventing and treating the disease. ... - Springdale Morning News

Not all guidelines on treating heart failure in adults apply to ...  May 2, 2006
...sensitizer that increases heart contractility without increasing intracellular calcium concentrations, improved survival compared to dobutamine or placebo in ... - AAP News (subscription)





Dobutamine stress echocardiography sensitivity improves after beta ...  Apr 6, 2006
Assessment of wall motion abnormalities during the recovery phase after acute beta blockade improves sensitivity of Dobutamine stress echocardiography ... - Therapeutics Daily (subscription)

The SURVIVE trial failed to demonstrate benefits of Levosimendan ...  Mar 12, 2006
Inotropic agents currently used for acute heart failure, including Dobutamine, Milrinone, and Nesiritide, have been associated with an increased risk of ... - Xagena.it

Attempts to Recruit Stem Cells for Repair of Acute Myocardial ...  Feb 28, 2006
...was improved by G-CSF plus stem cell factor in that ejection fraction improved to a greater extent when treated rats were exposed to dobutamine compared with ... - Journal of American Medical Association (subscription),

Combined atrial arterial switch operation (double switch) for ...  Feb 14, 2006
...respectively, in the second. Postoperatively, adrenaline, dobutamine, and milrinone infusions were instituted. Figure 1 A, Diagram ... - The Journal of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery

Physiological role of the 1 - and 2 -isoforms of the Na + -K ...  Feb 14, 2006
Furthermore, their baseline cardiovascular hemodynamics are normal (15). The animals also respond normally to the -adenergic agonist dobutamine. ... - AJP-Regul Integr Comp Physiology (subscription)

Orion Oyj: Orion group 2005 financial statements  09 Feb 2006
In this study in about 1,300 patients levosimendan was compared to dobutamine. ... In this study in about 1,300 patients levosimendan was compared to dobutamine. ... - Kauppalehti

Go to the source to check the facts  Feb 6, 2006
I had a doctor saying, "Give me a bolus of debutamine," but it was really a drip, not a bolus. And it should have been spelled "dobutamine.". ... - Scripps Howard News Service

Assumed oxygen consumption in the determination of cardiac output ...  Jan 23, 2006
Penny DJ, Sano T, Smolich JJ. Increased systemic oxygen consumption offsets improved oxygen delivery during dobutamine infusion in newborn lambs. ... - The Journal of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery

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