Acute right ventricular failure - From pathophysiology to new treatments

Intensive Care Medicine

Volumn 30, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 185-196

  Mebazaa, Alexandre ^a   Karpati, Peter ^a   Renaud, Estelle ^a   Algotsson, Lars ^b  

^a HÔPITAL LARIBOISIÈRE   (France)

^b LUND UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Heart failure; Inotropic agents; Levosimendan; Pathophysiology; Pharmacology; Vasodilator agents

Indexed keywords

CALCIUM; CALCIUM SENSITIZER; DOBUTAMINE; GLYCERYL TRINITRATE; HYPERTENSIVE FACTOR; ILOPROST; INOTROPIC AGENT; LEVOSIMENDAN; NITRIC OXIDE; NITROPRUSSIDE SODIUM; NORADRENALIN; OXYGEN; PROSTACYCLIN; PROSTACYCLIN DERIVATIVE; PROSTAGLANDIN E1;

ACUTE HEART FAILURE; ARTERIAL PRESSURE; ARTIFICIAL VENTILATION; CALCIUM CELL LEVEL; COR PULMONALE; CORONARY ARTERY BLOOD FLOW; DIAGNOSTIC PROCEDURE; DISEASE COURSE; DRUG HALF LIFE; DRUG MECHANISM; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; HEART AFTERLOAD; HEART ARREST; HEART CATHETERIZATION; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE FUNCTION; HEART MUSCLE CELL; HEART MUSCLE CONTRACTILITY; HEART MUSCLE ISCHEMIA; HEART MUSCLE OXYGEN CONSUMPTION; HEART MUSCLE RELAXATION; HEART OUTPUT; HEART PERFUSION; HEART PRELOAD; HEART RIGHT VENTRICLE EJECTION FRACTION; HEART RIGHT VENTRICLE FAILURE; HEART RIGHT VENTRICLE FUNCTION; HEART VOLUME; HEART WORK; HEMODYNAMICS; HUMAN; HYPOBARISM; LUNG ARTERY PRESSURE; LUNG BLOOD VESSEL; OXYGEN CONSUMPTION; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PATIENT MONITORING; PERFUSION PRESSURE; PULMONARY HYPERTENSION; REVIEW; RIGHT CORONARY ARTERY; TRANSLUMINAL CORONARY ANGIOPLASTY; TRICUSPID VALVE REGURGITATION; VASODILATATION;

ACUTE DISEASE; ADULT; AGED; CATHETERIZATION, SWAN-GANZ; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; HEART VENTRICLES; HUMANS; HYPERTENSION, PULMONARY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RESPIRATION, ARTIFICIAL; VASOCONSTRICTOR AGENTS; VENTRICULAR DYSFUNCTION, RIGHT;

EID: 1342310815     PISSN: 03424642     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00134-003-2025-3     Document Type: Review

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