Effects of Levosimendan on Right Ventricular Function in Patients With Advanced Heart Failure

American Journal of Cardiology

Volumn 98, Issue 11, 2006, Pages 1489-1492

  Parissis, John T ^a   Paraskevaidis, Ioannis ^a   Bistola, Vasiliki ^a   Farmakis, Dimitrios ^a   Panou, Fotios ^a   Kourea, Kallirrhoe ^a   Nikolaou, Maria ^a   Filippatos, Gerasimos ^a   Kremastinos, Dimitrios ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Greece)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BRAIN NATRIURETIC PEPTIDE; INTERLEUKIN 10; INTERLEUKIN 6; LEVOSIMENDAN; PLACEBO;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIASTOLIC BLOOD PRESSURE; DOPPLER ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; DRUG EFFECT; FEMALE; HEART FAILURE; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE FUNCTION; HEART RIGHT VENTRICLE FUNCTION; HUMAN; LUNG ARTERY PRESSURE; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RANDOMIZATION; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; SYSTOLIC BLOOD PRESSURE;

BLOOD PRESSURE; CARDIOTONIC AGENTS; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HEART FAILURE, CONGESTIVE; HUMANS; HYDRAZONES; INTERLEUKIN-10; INTERLEUKIN-6; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NATRIURETIC PEPTIDES; PULMONARY ARTERY; PYRIDAZINES; VASODILATOR AGENTS; VENTRICULAR DYSFUNCTION, LEFT; VENTRICULAR FUNCTION, RIGHT;

EID: 33751160138     PISSN: 00029149     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.amjcard.2006.06.052     Document Type: Article

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