Impact of prophylactic administration of Levosimendan on short-term and long-term outcome in high-risk patients with severely reduced left-ventricular ejection fraction undergoing cardiac surgery – a retrospective analysis

BACKGROUND: Patients with severely reduced left-ventricular ejection fraction carry a high risk of morbidity and mortality after cardiac surgery. Levosimendan can be used prophylactically in these patients having shown positive effects on short-term outcome. However, effects on long-term outcome and...

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Autores principales: Grieshaber, Philippe, Lipp, Stella, Arnold, Andreas, Görlach, Gerold, Wollbrück, Matthias, Roth, Peter, Niemann, Bernd, Wilhelm, Jochen, Böning, Andreas
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2016
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Research Article
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5131413/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27906091
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s13019-016-0556-2

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