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Calcium sensitizing agents in the failing heart /

Reda Mahmoud Mohamed

Calcium sensitizing agents in the failing heart / الادوية المحفزة للكالسيوم فى حالات فشل القلب Reda Mahmoud Mohamed ; Supervised Hoda Abdelkader Ghanem , Mohamed Abdelhamid , Hesham Hosni Abdelwahab - Cairo : Reda Mahmoud Mohamed , 2009 - 82 P. : charts ; 25cm

Thesis (M.Sc.) - Cairo University - Faculty of Medicine - Department of Anaesthesia

For acute worsening of heart failure, the short-term administration of levosimendan, a new inotrope with calcium sensitizing properties, appears to be safer than dobutamine. Also, in acute heart failure after myocardial infarction, levosimendan improved symptoms and halved mortality during the first 72h, a difference in mortality which was maintained over the nex16 months



Calcium sensitizers Heart failure Levosimendan