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Case Reports
. 1983 Feb;51(3):455-8.
doi: 10.1016/s0002-9149(83)80079-4.

Intermittent, continuous outpatient dobutamine infusion in the management of congestive heart failure

M M Applefeld, K A Newman, W R Grove, F J Sutton, D S Roffman, W P Reed, S E Linberg
Case Reports

Intermittent, continuous outpatient dobutamine infusion in the management of congestive heart failure

M M Applefeld et al. Am J Cardiol. 1983 Feb.

Abstract

The use of outpatient dobutamine infusions by a small, portable infusion pump in 3 patients with intractable congestive heart failure (CHF) is described. With this therapy left ventricular function improved and CHF resolved in each. Tolerance to dobutamine was obviated by giving infusions twice weekly. Except for 3 mild infections around the catheter exit site, there have been no complications of this therapy is 58 cumulative patient weeks.

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