Levosimendan may improve survival in patients requiring mechanical assist devices for post-cardiotomy heart failure

INTRODUCTION: Most case series suggest that less than half of the patients receiving a mechanical cardiac assist device as a bridge to recovery due to severe post-cardiotomy heart failure survive to hospital discharge. Levosimendan is the only inotropic substance known to improve medium term surviva...

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Autores principales: Braun, Jan-Peter, Jasulaitis, Dominik, Moshirzadeh, Maryam, Doepfmer, Ulrich R, Kastrup, Marc, von Heymann, Christian, Dohmen, Pascal M, Konertz, Wolfgang, Spies, Claudia
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2006
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Research
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1550852/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/16420666
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/cc3979

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https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1550852/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/16420666
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/cc3979

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