Response of right ventricular function to prostaglandin E1 infusion predicts outcome for severe chronic heart failure patients awaiting urgent transplantation

Journal of Heart and Lung Transplantation

Volumn 19, Issue 10, 2000, Pages 939-945

  Hülsmann, Martin ^a   Stefenelli, Thomas ^a   Berger, Rudolf ^a   Sturm, Barbara ^a   Parkner, Alexander ^a   Zuckermann, Andreas ^a   Woloszczuk, Wolfgang ^b   Pacher, Richard ^a  

^a MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

^b LUDWIG BOLTZMANN INSTITUTE FOR LUNG VASCULAR RESEARCH   (Austria)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DOBUTAMINE; PROSTAGLANDIN E1;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CONGESTIVE HEART FAILURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HEART CATHETERIZATION; HEART FAILURE; HEART RIGHT VENTRICLE FUNCTION; HEART TRANSPLANTATION; HEMODYNAMICS; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PATIENT SELECTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; VASODILATATION;

AGED; ALPROSTADIL; FEMALE; HEART FAILURE, CONGESTIVE; HEMODYNAMICS; HUMAN; MALE; MIDDLE AGE; PATIENT SELECTION; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; PROGNOSIS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; VASODILATOR AGENTS; VENTRICULAR FUNCTION, RIGHT;

EID: 0033810894     PISSN: 10532498     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1053-2498(00)00180-7     Document Type: Article

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