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Left ventricular systolic dysfunction in a cardiac transplant recipient treated with carvedilol
Roy S Gardner1, James McGowan, Theresa A McDonagh
1The Scottish Cardiopulmonary Transplant Unit, Royal Infirmary, Glasgow, UK. rsgardner@doctors.net.uk
European Journal of Heart Failure
|May 30, 2002
Abstract:
A 49-year-old cardiac transplant recipient with idiopathic left ventricular systolic dysfunction was treated with carvedilol. After 8 months, his ejection fraction, measured by radionuclide ventriculography, had increased from 14 to 30% with an associated improvement in symptoms.