Assessment of epinephrine and levosimendan in the post-CPB period.

<p><b>(A)</b> Assessment of the left ventricle myocardial performance index at the post-CPB period for the epinephrine group and levosimendan group. *p = 0.0013 (Student’s <i>t</i>-test) <b>(B)</b> Assessment of the cardiac index at the post-CPB for the epinephrine group and levosimendan group. *p = 0.03 (Student’s <i>t</i>-test) <b>(C)</b> Assessment of the heart rate at the post-CPB for the epinephrine group and levosimendan group. *p = 0.04 (Student’s <i>t</i>-test) <b>(D)</b> Assessment of the systemic vascular resistance index at post-CPB protamine for the epinephrine group and levosimendan group. *p = 0.01 (Student’s <i>t</i>-test). CBP: Cardiopulmonary by-pass, MPI: myocardial performance index CI: cardiac index, HR: heart rate, SVRI: systemic vascular resistance index.