Levosimendan: The Inotrope of Choice in Cardiogenic Shock Secondary to Takotsubo Cardiomyopathy?

Heart Lung and Circulation

Volumn 16, Issue SUPPL. 3, 2007, Pages

  Padayachee, Laven ^a  

^a EPWORTH HOSPITAL   (Australia)

Author keywords

Apical ballooning; Levosimendan; Shock; Takotsubo

Indexed keywords

ADRENALIN; ANTIHYPERTENSIVE AGENT; BETA ADRENERGIC RECEPTOR BLOCKING AGENT; CALCIUM SENSITIZER; CATECHOLAMINE; DIPEPTIDYL CARBOXYPEPTIDASE INHIBITOR; DOBUTAMINE; DOPAMINE; ESMOLOL; GLYCERYL TRINITRATE; LACTIC ACID; LEVOSIMENDAN; METHYLPREDNISOLONE; NEOSTIGMINE; NEUROPEPTIDE; NORADRENALIN; PYRIDOSTIGMINE;

AGED; ANGIOCARDIOGRAPHY; ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL VENTILATION; CARDIOGENIC SHOCK; CARDIOMYOPATHY; CASE REPORT; CONVALESCENCE; DISEASE EXACERBATION; DRUG CHOICE; DRUG DOSE INCREASE; DRUG DOSE REDUCTION; DRUG WITHDRAWAL; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; ENDOSCOPIC SURGERY; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HEART INDEX; HEART VENTRICULOGRAPHY; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HOSPITAL DISCHARGE; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; HYPOTENSION; INOTROPISM; INTENSIVE CARE; JAPAN; LUNG EDEMA; MALE; MEDICAL LITERATURE; MYASTHENIA GRAVIS; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PLASMAPHERESIS; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESPIRATORY TRACT INTUBATION; SINUS TACHYCARDIA; ST SEGMENT ELEVATION; STUNNED HEART MUSCLE; SYSTOLIC DYSFUNCTION; TACHYCARDIA; TAKOTSUBO CARDIOMYOPATHY; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VASODILATATION;

AGED, 80 AND OVER; ALGORITHMS; CARDIOTONIC AGENTS; CATECHOLAMINES; FEMALE; HUMANS; HYDRAZONES; MALE; MYOCARDIAL CONTRACTION; NEUROPEPTIDES; PYRIDAZINES; TAKOTSUBO CARDIOMYOPATHY; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 34547732827     PISSN: 14439506     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.hlc.2007.03.018     Document Type: Article

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