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Section Type: RESULTS

Text: Patients treated with bucindolol had significant improvements in clinical heart failure symptoms and in resting hemodynamic function, including an increase of left ventricular ejection fraction (0. 26 + / - 0. 02 to 0. 35 + / - 0. 09, p = 0. 003), cardiac index (2. 2 + / - 0. 1 to 2. 5 + / - 0. 4 L/minute/m2, p = 0. 014), and left ventricular stroke work index (25 + / - 3 to 35 + / - 7 g. m / m2, p = 0. 002) and a decrease in pulmonary artery wedge pressure (17 + / - 3 to 10 + / - 5 mm Hg, p = 0. 005) and heart rate (86 + / - 3 to 75 + / - 9 beats/minute, p = 0. 012).