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Section Type: RESULTS

Text: Treatment effects of bosentan compared with placebo on other parameters were as follows : Doppler-derived cardiac index = +0. 4 l/min/m (2) (p = 0. 007), LV early diastolic filling velocity = +10. 5 cm/s (p = 0. 003), LV end-diastolic area = +4. 2 cm (2) (p = 0. 003), LV systolic eccentricity index = -0. 12 (p = 0. 047), RV end-systolic area = -2. 3 cm (2) (p = 0. 057), RV : LV diastolic areas ratio = -0. 64 (p = 0. 007), Doppler RV index = -0. 06 (p = 0. 03), and percentage of patients with an improvement in pericardial effusion score = 17 % (p = 0. 05).