Published in Law and Health Weekly, June 4th, 2005
In a recent report published in the International Journal of Cardiology, researchers in Japan conducted a study "to investigate the negative chronotropic response (NCR) to low-dose atropine in postoperative patients with congenital heart disease (CHD). Low-dose atropine causes a NCR through the central nervous system muscarinic receptor and is attenuated in adult heart failure patients. It has never been evaluated in CHD patients."
H. Ohuchi and colleagues of the...
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