Tenax Therapeutics Announced KOL Webinar on Levosimendan for Pulmonary Hypertension with Heart Failure with Preserved Ejection Fraction (PH-HFpEF) streetinsider.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from streetinsider.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
April 15, 2021
For patients who have pulmonary hypertension and heart failure with preserved ejection fraction (PH-HFpEF), treatment with levosimendan (Simdax; Tenax Therapeutics) can improve both pulmonary congestion and submaximal exercise capacity when compared with placebo, according to the results of a small study.
While the phase II study missed its primary endpoint, which was a reduction in pulmonary capillary wedge pressure (PCWP) during exercise, levosimendan did reduce PCWPs across the rest, leg raise, and exercise stages. It also led to an improvement in 6-minute walk distance, investigators reported online April 7, 2021, in the
Journal of the American College of Cardiology: Heart Failure.