Successful administration of levosimendan in a patient with low-gradient low-output aortic stenosis

Wiener Klinische Wochenschrift

Volumn 118, Issue 1-2, 2006, Pages 60-62

  Hoefer, Daniel ^a   Jonetzko, Patrycja ^a   Hoermann, Christoph ^a   Laufer, Guenther ^a   Poelzl, Gerhard ^a  

^a INNSBRUCK MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Austria)

Author keywords

Aortic valve stenosis; Heart failure; Levosimendan

Indexed keywords

LEVOSIMENDAN;

AGED; ANAMNESIS; AORTA STENOSIS; AORTA VALVE REPLACEMENT; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; CONGESTIVE HEART FAILURE; DRUG EFFECT; DRUG TOLERABILITY; HUMAN; INTENSIVE CARE UNIT; ISCHEMIC HEART DISEASE; MALE; SURGICAL MORTALITY; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

AGED; AORTIC VALVE STENOSIS; HEART VALVE PROSTHESIS IMPLANTATION; HUMANS; HYDRAZONES; MALE; PERIOPERATIVE CARE; PYRIDAZINES; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VASODILATOR AGENTS; VENTRICULAR DYSFUNCTION, LEFT;

EID: 33644820501     PISSN: 00435325     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00508-005-0508-2     Document Type: Article

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