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Research from Federal University of Sao Paulo, Cardiology Division yields new findings on pharmacological

Published in Drug Week, August 20th, 2010

Investigators publish new data in the report 'Use of afterload hemodynamic stress as a practical method for assessing cardiac performance in rats with heart failure.' "After myocardial infarction, the hemodynamics under basal conditions might appear to be unaltered, which makes it difficult to identify cardiac dysfunction by the usual approaches. Thus, we tested the response to sudden afterload stress in infarcted rats with apparently normal ejection function," scientists in Sao Paulo, Brazil report.

"Control (CT) and infarcted (MI) Wistar rats with various MI sizes were submitted to echocardiography 30 days after coronary occlusion, followed by assessment of...

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