The Journal of Heart and Lung Transplantation
Volume 27, Issue 4 , Pages 457-461, April 2008

Clenbuterol Increases Lean Muscle Mass but Not Endurance in Patients With Chronic Heart Failure

  • Gayathri Kamalakkannan, MD

      Affiliations

    • Division of Cardiology, Department of Medicine, Montefiore Medical Center, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx, New York
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  • Christopher M. Petrilli, BS

      Affiliations

    • Division of Cardiology, Department of Medicine, Montefiore Medical Center, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx, New York
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  • Isaac George, MD

      Affiliations

    • Division of Cardiothoracic Surgery, Department of Surgery, Columbia College of Physicians and Surgeons, New York, New York
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  • John LaManca, PhD

      Affiliations

    • Department of Health, Physical Education & Human Performance, Salisbury University, Salisbury, Maryland.
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  • Brooke T. McLaughlin, MPH

      Affiliations

    • Division of Cardiology, Columbia College of Physicians and Surgeons, New York, New York
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  • Elizabeth Shane, MD

      Affiliations

    • Division of Endocrinology, Department of Medicine, Columbia College of Physicians and Surgeons, New York, New York
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  • Donna M. Mancini, MD

      Affiliations

    • Division of Cardiology, Columbia College of Physicians and Surgeons, New York, New York
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  • Simon Maybaum, MD

      Affiliations

    • Division of Cardiology, Department of Medicine, Montefiore Medical Center, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx, New York
    • Corresponding Author InformationReprint requests: Simon Maybaum, MD, Center for Advanced Cardiac Therapy, Montefiore Medical Center, 3400 Bainbridge Ave, 7th Floor, Bronx, New York 10467. Telephone: 718-920-2626. Fax: 718-652-1822.

Received 19 October 2007; received in revised form 10 January 2008; accepted 12 January 2008.

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 This work was supported in part through a grant from the Foundation for the Advancement of Cardiac Therapies (FACT) Jupiter, Florida, and from Parent Project Muscular Dystrophy (PPMD), Middletown, Ohio.

 Dr Maybaum is listed as coinventor on a patent held by Columbia University for the use of clenbuterol to improve cardiac and skeletal muscle function in patients with congestive heart failure.

PII: S1053-2498(08)00041-7

doi:10.1016/j.healun.2008.01.013

The Journal of Heart and Lung Transplantation
Volume 27, Issue 4 , Pages 457-461, April 2008

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