. 2019 Mar 22;10:267. doi: 10.3389/fphys.2019.00267

Table 1.

Left ventricular ejection fraction pre-operation, 2 weeks post-operation, and 4 weeks after drug administration (mean ± SD%).

Group	Sham operation	Heart failure (model)	MCP (Gal-3 inhibitor)	Perindopril
Before operation	69.12 ± 1.77	70.88 ± 2.19	71.61 ± 1.24	72.78 ± 6.21
2 weeks after operation	67.83 ± 1.94	49.17 ± 1.27^a	49.09 ± 0.89^a	48.60 ± 0.99^a
4 weeks after medication	61.37 ± 5.45	40.22 ± 0.87^a	59.96 ± 3.14^b	57.81 ± 3.89^b

Left ventricular ejection fraction (LVEF); ^a, P < 0.05 vs. Sham operation group; ^b, P < 0.05 vs. heart failure group.