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2147842

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rdf:type
lifeskim:mentions
pubmed:dateCreated
1991-1-22
pubmed:abstractText
A better selection of patients referred for cardiac transplantation should lead to better surgical results. The presence of severe and irreversible pulmonary hypertension is an important factor and its pretransplantation assessment requires pharmacodynamic testing with vasodilators and dobutamine. The aim of this study of 10 patients in congestive cardiac failure referred for cardiac transplantation was to evaluate enoximone in this indication by comparing it with sodium nitroprussiate (3 micrograms/kg/mn). Intravenous enoximone (total dose of 1.5 mg/kg) increased the cardiac index (+49%; p less than 0.01), slightly reduced the mean systemic blood pressure (-8%; p less than 0.05) whilst inducing a greater reduction in systemic arterial resistances (-36%; p less than 0.01); the fall in mean blood pressure was less than with sodium nitroprussiate (-23%; p less than 0.01). Myocardial oxygen consumption (rate-pressure product) did not increase in contrast to the effect of dobutamine (+21%; p less than 0.01). There was a significant reduction in pulmonary arteriolar resistances (p less than 0.01) with all three drugs but the interpretation of this response and its prognostic significance in patients with a low cardiac output and persistent pulmonary hypertension are discutable even when pulmonary arteriolar resistances are less than 6 Wood units. The value of using an inotropic agent such as Dobutamine or Enoximone is to unmask fixed pulmonary hypertension which may be missed in patients with low cardiac output even with vasodilator drugs, and also to mimic the haemodynamic result of transplantation. In this indication Enoximone may be used like Dobutamine but with the advantage of not increasing myocardial oxygen consumption and being probably less arrhythmogenic.
pubmed:language
fre
pubmed:journal
pubmed:citationSubset
IM
pubmed:chemical
pubmed:status
MEDLINE
pubmed:month
Sep
pubmed:issn
0003-9683
pubmed:author
pubmed:issnType
Print
pubmed:volume
83 Spec No 3
pubmed:owner
NLM
pubmed:authorsComplete
Y
pubmed:pagination
95-101
pubmed:dateRevised
2009-2-13
pubmed:meshHeading
pubmed:year
1990
pubmed:articleTitle
[Enoximone in the hemodynamic evaluation before heart transplantation. A new test].
pubmed:affiliation
Clinique cardiologique, hôpital Broussais, Paris.
pubmed:publicationType
Journal Article, Clinical Trial, Comparative Study, English Abstract, Controlled Clinical Trial