Key result
Dopamine infusion improved clinical condition and rapidly reduced heart size in four infants with myocardial dysfunction associated with a persistent transitional circulation.
Why the study?
Does dopamine infusion improve clinical condition and heart size in infants with myocardial dysfunction associated with a persistent transitional circulation?
Does dopamine infusion improve clinical condition and heart size in infants with myocardial dysfunction associated with a persistent transitional circulation?
Dopamine infusion may improve clinical condition and reduce heart size in infants with myocardial dysfunction and persistent transitional circulation.
Should not change practice; leaves open dopamine's role in neonatal myocardial dysfunction with transitional circulation.
Four infants with myocardial dysfunction associated with a persistent transitional circulation were given dopamine infusions in addition to standard treatment. The condition of each improved strikingly with rapid diminution in heart size as judged by chest x-ray. Dopamine has a place in the management of the sick infant with a persistent transitional circulation.
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Fiddler et al. (1980) studied this question. Dopamine infusion improved clinical condition and rapidly reduced heart size in four infants with myocardial dysfunction associated with a persistent transitional circulation.
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