Wang RY, Lee PK, Yu DY, Tse TF, Chow MS. Myocardial metabolic effects of intravenous terbutaline in patients with severe heart failure due to coronary artery disease.
J Clin Pharmacol 1983;
23:362-8. [PMID:
6630586 DOI:
10.1002/j.1552-4604.1983.tb02749.x]
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Abstract
Intravenous terbutaline, 0.3 mg/kg/min for 30 minutes followed by 0.15 mg/min for 60 minutes, was studied in nine patients with severe heart failure due to documented coronary artery disease. Hemodynamic and myocardial metabolic effects were measured during terbutaline infusion. Cardiac index and stroke index increased, whereas mean pulmonary artery wedge pressure and pulmonary vascular resistance decreased significantly. No significant alterations in aortic oxygen content, coronary sinus oxygen content, myocardial oxygen extraction, and myocardial lactate extraction were observed during terbutaline infusion. No patient developed angina or electrocardiographic changes suggestive of ischemia. These results indicate that intravenous terbutaline infusion, at the dosage employed, produces beneficial hemodynamic effects without a deterioration of myocardial metabolism in patients with heart failure due to coronary artery disease.
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