Fig. 2.
Durability of left ventricular function following a single dose of elamipretide in failing canine hearts [Sabbah personal observation]. In a canine model of chronic heart failure, a single dose of elamipretide resulted in favorable changes in left ventricular fractional area of shortening, the effect of which took 7 days to completely disappear (i.e., beyond the 4-h half-life of elamipretide). Abbreviation: FAS, fractional area of shortening