Published: 01 July, 2019 | Volume 4 - Issue 2 | Pages: 053-070
Figure 6:
Hemodynamic course of patients with virus-negative inflammatory cardiomyopathy treated immunosuppressive at baseline, 6 months and at a long-term follow-up period.
We analyzed the hemodynamic course of 87 patients after 6 months and in long-term follow-ups subsequent to immunosuppressive therapy: 1 mg/kg body weight daily of prednisone for 4 weeks followed by 0.33 mg/kg body weight daily for 5 months and azathioprine 2 mg/kg body weight daily for 6 months.
Immunosuppressive treatment of patients with virus-negative infl ammatory cardiomyopathy resulted in A) an improvement of LVEF in long-term follow-up with significantly reduction of intramyocardial infl ammation B) CD3 positive t-cells, C) cytotoxic cells (perforin) in 6 month EMB.
Mean values ± standard deviation are shown; **P< 0.0001, *P< 0.05 (compared to baseline EMB)
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