Reversible Cardiac Sympathectomy by High Thoracic Epidural Anesthesia Improves Regional Left Ventricular Function in Patients Undergoing Coronary Artery Bypass Grafting: A Randomized Trial

Archives of Surgery

Volumn 138, Issue 12, 2003, Pages 1283-1290

  Berendes, Elmar ^a   Schmidt, Christoph ^a   Van Aken, Hugo ^a   Hartlage, Maike Grosse ^a   Wirtz, Stefan ^a   Reinecke, Holger ^a   Rothenburger, Markus ^a   Scheld, Hans Heinrich ^a   Schluter, Bernhard ^a   Brodner, Gerhard ^a   Walter, Michael ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL MÜNSTER   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS SOUTHWESTERN MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADRENALIN; APROTININ; ATRIAL NATRIURETIC FACTOR; BETA ADRENERGIC RECEPTOR BLOCKING AGENT; BRAIN NATRIURETIC PEPTIDE; BUPIVACAINE; GLYCERYL TRINITRATE; HEPARIN; HEPARIN NATRIUM; HTK SOLUTION; MIDAZOLAM MALEATE; PANCURONIUM BROMIDE; PLASMA PROTEIN; PROPOFOL; PROTAMINE SULFATE; SUFENTANIL CITRATE; TROPONIN I;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONCENTRATION (PARAMETERS); CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORONARY ARTERY BYPASS GRAFT; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; CORONARY RISK; DRUG EFFECT; FEMALE; GENERAL ANESTHESIA; GERMANY; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE EJECTION FRACTION; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE FUNCTION; HEART MUSCLE ISCHEMIA; HEART MUSCLE REPERFUSION; HEART MUSCLE REVASCULARIZATION; HEART PROTECTION; HEART VENTRICLE WALL MOTION; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORTALITY; OUTCOMES RESEARCH; PERIOPERATIVE PERIOD; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; SINGLE BLIND PROCEDURE; SOMATOSENSORY NERVE BLOCK; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; SURGICAL RISK; SYMPATHECTOMY; SYMPATHETIC BLOCKING; THORAX EPIDURAL ANESTHESIA; TRANSESOPHAGEAL ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; TREATMENT OUTCOME; UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL; VERTEBRA;

ANESTHESIA, EPIDURAL; ATRIAL NATRIURETIC FACTOR; CHI-SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; CORONARY ARTERY BYPASS; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY, TRANSESOPHAGEAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NATRIURETIC PEPTIDE, BRAIN; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SYMPATHECTOMY; TREATMENT OUTCOME; TROPONIN I; VENTRICULAR DYSFUNCTION, LEFT;

EID: 10744220048     PISSN: 00040010     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1001/archsurg.138.12.1283     Document Type: Article

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