Title : Effects of levosimendan versus dobutamine on inflammatory and apoptotic pathways in acutely decompensated chronic heart failure.

Pub. Date : 2006 Jul 1

PMID : 16784930






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1 Plasma N-terminal-pro-B-type natriuretic peptide, tumor necrosis factor-alpha, and soluble Fas ligand levels were significantly decreased only in the levosimendan group (from 1,900 +/- 223 to 1,378 +/- 170 pg/ml, 13.4 +/- 1.0 to 12.3 +/- 1.2 pg/ml, and 68.2 +/- 3.7 to 59.8 +/- 3.6 pg/ml, respectively; p <0.05 for all); interleukin-6 was also borderline reduced (p = 0.051). Simendan interleukin 6 Homo sapiens