Outpatient continuous parenteral inotropic therapy as bridge to transplantation in children with advanced heart failure

Journal of Cardiac Failure

Volumn 12, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 139-143

  Price, Jack F ^a,b   Towbin, Jeffrey A ^a,b   Dreyer, William J ^a,b   Moffett, Brady S ^b   Kertesz, Naomi J ^a,b   Clunie, Sarah K ^b   Denfield, Susan W ^a,b  

^a BAYLOR COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b TEXAS CHILDREN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

Heart failure; Inotrope; Pediatric; Transplant

Indexed keywords

AMIODARONE; BETA ADRENERGIC RECEPTOR BLOCKING AGENT; DIGOXIN; DIPEPTIDYL CARBOXYPEPTIDASE INHIBITOR; DIURETIC AGENT; DOPAMINE; MILRINONE;

CARDIOVASCULAR RISK; CATHETER COMPLICATION; CATHETER OCCLUSION; DEFIBRILLATOR; DISEASE EXACERBATION; DRUG TOLERABILITY; EMERGENCY WARD; EXTRAVASATION; HEART EJECTION FRACTION; HEART FAILURE; HEART TRANSPLANTATION; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HUMAN; INOTROPISM; MORBIDITY; MORTALITY; OUTPATIENT CARE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; TREATMENT DURATION; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 33644769017     PISSN: 10719164     EISSN: 15328414     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cardfail.2005.11.001     Document Type: Article

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