Continuous intravenous dobutamine is associated with an increased risk of death in patients with advanced heart failure: insights from the Flolan International Randomized Survival Trial (FIRST).

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Published in Am Heart J on July 01, 1999

Authors

C M O'Connor1, W A Gattis, B F Uretsky, K F Adams, S E McNulty, S H Grossman, W J McKenna, F Zannad, K Swedberg, M Gheorghiade, R M Califf

Author Affiliations

1: Duke University Medical Center, Durham, NC 27710, USA. oconn002@mc.duke.edu

Associated clinical trials:

French Observatory on the Management of Cardiogenic Shock in 2016 (FRENSHOCK) | NCT02703038

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