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Virk, S.J. et al.

The acute effects of intravenous xamoterol ('Corwin', I.C.I. 118, 587) on resting and exercise haemodynamics in patients with mild to moderate heart failure.

The known properties of xamoterol, a partial beta 1-agonist, provide a basis to pharmacologically modulate cardiac responses to variations in sympathetic tone. Haemodynamic variables were assessed at rest and on exercise before and after intravenous xamoterol (0.2 mg kg-1), in 30 patients with mild to moderate cardiac failure. Xamoterol produced significant improvements in resting cardiac index (2.51 +/- 0.15 to 2.80 +/- 0.14 l min-1 m-2; P less than 0.001), stroke volume (62 +/- 4 to 75 +/- 5 mljbeat-1; P less than 0.001) and stroke work index (42.4 +/- 3.6 to 47.7 +/- 3.9 gm beat-1 m-2; P less than 0.01). This occurred despite a significant reduction in heart rate (78 +/- 3 to 74 +/- 2 beats min-1; P less than 0.05). There were also significant reductions in systemic vascular resistance (1990 +/- 141 to 1669 +/- 112 dynes s-1 cm-5; P less than 0.01) and double product (1146 +/- 46 to 1051 +/- 41 mmHg min-1 x 10(-1); P less than 0.05), with no significant changes in systolic blood pressure, pulmonary wedge pressure or ejection fraction. Xamoterol significantly attenuated the heart rate response to exercise (112 +/- 4 to 97 +/- 3 beats min-1; P less than 0.001), with no impairment in the expected exercise induced increase in cardiac index. This was due to the significant increase in stroke volume from 81 +/- 6 to 95 +/- 7 ml beat-1 (P less than 0.001). There were no significant changes in resting or exercise noradrenaline levels.(ABSTRACT TRUNCATED AT 250 WORDS)[1]

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The acute effects of intravenous xamoterol ('Corwin', I.C.I. 118, 587) on resting and exercise haemodynamics in patients with mild to moderate heart failure. Virk, S.J., Anfilogoff, N.H., Lawson, N., Sadler, A.M., Smith, S.J., Nuttall, A., Murray, R.G., Littler, W.A., Davies, M.K. Eur. Heart J. (1989) [Pubmed]

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