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Original Source: Istaroxime: Is the Remedy Better than the Disease? : Editorial to: "Chronic Istaroxine Improves Cardiac Function and Heart Rate Variability in Cardiomyopathic Hamsters" by Pietro Lo Giudice et al.
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Chronic Istaroxime Improves Cardiac Function and Heart Rate Variability in Cardiomyopathic Hamsters.
PURPOSE: Istaroxime is a new luso-inotropic compound. It exerts inotropic action by reducing Na(+)/K(+)-ATPase activity, and simultaneously it stimulates sarcoplasmic reticulum Ca(2+)-ATPase function,...
Acute heart failure represents an increasingly common cause of hospitalization, and may require the use of inotropic drugs in patients with low cardiac output and evidence of organ hypoperfusion. Howe...
Inotropes in cardiac patients: update 2011.
PURPOSE OF REVIEW: ICU patients frequently develop low output syndromes due to cardiac dysfunction, myocardial injury, and inflammatory activation. Conventional inotropic agents seem to be useful in r...