[Cardiotropic properties of lithium oxybutyrate in an experiment and in the clinic]

Lithium oxybutyrate was shown to exert pronounced coronarolytic effects, to increase volume velocity of the coronary blood flow, to improve blood supply to ischemic myocardial areas thereby providing oxygen reserve. Lithium oxybutyrate improves the functional state of the ischemic focus, limits zone of experimental myocardial necroses, exerts an antifibrillatory action, increases pain sensitivity threshold. A high efficacy of the drug was established during clinical study in patients with cardiac rhythm disorders.