Table 1.
Sources of human cardiac tissue used
| Medications |
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Disease or group | Sex | Age (years) | ACE-I | ARB | Beta-blocker | Aldosterone antagonist | Digoxin | Diuretic | Hydralazine | Nitrate | Anti-arrhythmic |
| Non-failing control heart | M | 39 | |||||||||
| Non-failing control heart | M | 50 | |||||||||
| Non-failing control heart | M | 59 | |||||||||
| Non-failing control heart | F | 43 | |||||||||
| Non-failing control heart | F | 60 | |||||||||
| Diabetic cardiomyopathy | M | 57 | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | |||||
| Diabetic cardiomyopathy | M | 58 | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | |||
| Diabetic cardiomyopathy | M | 62 | Yes | Yes | Yes | ||||||
| Diabetic cardiomyopathy | M | 64 | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | ||||
| Diabetic cardiomyopathy | M | 67 | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | |||
| Diabetic cardiomyopathy | F | 51 | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | ||||
| Ischaemic cardiomyopathy | M | 49 | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | |||
| Ischaemic cardiomyopathy | M | 56 | Yes | Yes | Yes | ||||||
| Ischaemic cardiomyopathy | M | 60 | Yes | Yes | Yes | ||||||
| Ischaemic cardiomyopathy | M | 68 | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | ||||
| Ischaemic cardiomyopathy | M | 69 | Yes | Yes | Yes | ||||||
| Ischaemic cardiomyopathy | M | 70 | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | |||||
| Ischaemic cardiomyopathy | M | 72 | Yes | Yes | Yes | ||||||
| Ischaemic cardiomyopathy | F | 44 | Yes | Yes | |||||||
| Ischaemic cardiomyopathy | F | 48 | Yes | Yes | Yes | ||||||
| Ischaemic cardiomyopathy | F | 69 | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | ||||
| Idiopathic dilated cardiomyopathy | M | 24 | |||||||||
| Idiopathic dilated cardiomyopathy | M | 57 | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | |||||
| Idiopathic dilated cardiomyopathy | M | 59 | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | |||||
| Idiopathic dilated cardiomyopathy | M | 62 | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | |||||
| Idiopathic dilated cardiomyopathy | M | 66 | Yes | Yes | Yes | ||||||
| Idiopathic dilated cardiomyopathy | F | 39 | Yes | Yes | Yes | ||||||
| Idiopathic dilated cardiomyopathy | F | 57 | Yes | Yes | |||||||
| Idiopathic dilated cardiomyopathy | F | 58 | Yes | Yes | Yes | ||||||
| Idiopathic dilated cardiomyopathy | F | 59 | Yes | Yes | |||||||
| Idiopathic dilated cardiomyopathy | F | 60 | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | |||||
| Left ventricular assist device | M | 36 | Yes | ||||||||
| Left ventricular assist device | M | 48 | Yes | Yes | Yes | ||||||
| Left ventricular assist device | M | 52 | Yes | Yes | |||||||
| Left ventricular assist device | M | 59 | |||||||||
| Left ventricular assist device | F | 37 | Yes | Yes | |||||||
ACE-I, angiotensin converting enzyme inhibitor; ARB, angiotensin II receptor blocker; F, female; M, male.