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dc.contributor.author | Comín Colet, Josep | - |
dc.contributor.author | Manito Lorite, Nicolás | - |
dc.contributor.author | Segovia Cubero, Javier | - |
dc.contributor.author | Delgado, Juan | - |
dc.contributor.author | García Pinilla, José Manuel | - |
dc.contributor.author | Almenar, Luis | - |
dc.contributor.author | Crespo Leiro, María G. | - |
dc.contributor.author | Sionis, Alessandro | - |
dc.contributor.author | Blasco, Teresa | - |
dc.contributor.author | Pascual Figal, Domingo | - |
dc.contributor.author | Gonzalez Vilchez, Francisco | - |
dc.contributor.author | Lambert Rodríguez, José Luis | - |
dc.contributor.author | Grau, Maria | - |
dc.contributor.author | Bruguera, Jordi | - |
dc.contributor.author | LION- HEART Study Investigators | - |
dc.date.accessioned | 2021-02-02T12:06:18Z | - |
dc.date.available | 2021-02-02T12:06:18Z | - |
dc.date.issued | 2018-07-01 | - |
dc.identifier.issn | 1388-9842 | - |
dc.identifier.uri | https://hdl.handle.net/2445/173595 | - |
dc.description.abstract | Aims. The LION‐HEART study was a multicentre, double‐blind, randomised, parallel‐group, placebo‐controlled trial evaluating the efficacy and safety of intravenous administration of intermittent doses of levosimendan in outpatients with advanced chronic heart failure. Methods and results. Sixty‐nine patients from 12 centres were randomly assigned at a 2:1 ratio to levosimendan or placebo groups, receiving treatment by a 6‐hour intravenous infusion (0.2 μg/kg/min without bolus) every 2 weeks for 12 weeks. The primary endpoint was the effect on serum concentrations of N‐terminal pro‐B‐type natriuretic peptide (NT‐proBNP) throughout the treatment period in comparison with placebo. Secondary endpoints included evaluation of safety, clinical events and health‐related quality of life (HRQoL). The area under the curve (AUC, pg.day/mL) of the levels of NT‐proBNP over time for patients who received levosimendan was significantly lower than for the placebo group (344 × 103 [95% Confidence Interval (CI) 283 × 103−404 × 103] vs. 535 × 103 [443 × 103−626 × 103], p = 0.003). In comparison with the placebo group, the patients on levosimendan experienced a reduction in the rate of heart failure hospitalisation (hazard ratio 0.25; 95% CI 0.11-0.56; P = 0.001). Patients on levosimendan were less likely to experience a clinically significant decline in HRQoL over time (P = 0.022). Adverse event rates were similar in the two treatment groups. Conclusions. In this small pilot study, intermittent administration of levosimendan to ambulatory patients with advanced systolic heart failure reduced plasma concentrations of NT‐proBNP, worsening of HRQoL and hospitalisation for heart failure. The efficacy and safety of this intervention should be confirmed in larger trials. | - |
dc.format.extent | 9 p. | - |
dc.format.mimetype | application/pdf | - |
dc.language.iso | eng | - |
dc.publisher | Oxford University Press | - |
dc.relation.isformatof | Versió postprint del document publicat a: https://doi.org/10.1002/ejhf.1145 | - |
dc.relation.ispartof | European Journal of Heart Failure, 2018, vol. 20, num. 7, p. 1128-1136 | - |
dc.relation.uri | https://doi.org/10.1002/ejhf.1145 | - |
dc.rights | (c) Comín Colet et al., 2018 | - |
dc.source | Articles publicats en revistes (Medicina) | - |
dc.subject.classification | Malalties del cor | - |
dc.subject.classification | Insuficiència cardíaca | - |
dc.subject.other | Heart diseases | - |
dc.subject.other | Heart failure | - |
dc.title | Efficacy and safety of intermittent intravenous outpatient administration of levosimendan in patients with advanced heart failure: the LION-HEART multicentre randomised trial | - |
dc.type | info:eu-repo/semantics/article | - |
dc.type | info:eu-repo/semantics/acceptedVersion | - |
dc.identifier.idgrec | 696071 | - |
dc.date.updated | 2021-02-02T12:06:18Z | - |
dc.rights.accessRights | info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess | - |
dc.identifier.pmid | 29405611 | - |
Appears in Collections: | Articles publicats en revistes (Ciències Clíniques) Articles publicats en revistes (Medicina) Articles publicats en revistes (Institut d'lnvestigació Biomèdica de Bellvitge (IDIBELL)) |
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