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Single-center experience with levosimendan in children undergoing cardiac surgery and in children with decompensated heart failure

BACKGROUND: Levosimendan has pharmacologic and hemodynamic advantages over conventional intravenous inotropic agents. It has been used mainly as a rescue drug in the pediatric intensive care unit or in the operating room. We present the largest single-center experience of levosimendan in children. M...

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Autor principal: Suominen, Pertti K
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2011
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3199236/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21974814
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1471-2253-11-18