Levosimendan allows detection of contractile reserve in patients with chronic ischaemic left ventricular dysfunction and non-diagnostic dobutamine echocardiography

European Journal of Heart Failure

Volumn 9, Issue 9, 2007, Pages 897-900

  Cianfrocca, Cinzia ^a,b   Pelliccia, Francesco ^a,b   Auriti, Antonio ^a   Guido, Vincenzo ^a   Pasceri, Vincenzo ^a   Li, Xue ^a   Richichi, Giuseppe ^a   Mercuro, Giuseppe ^b   Santini, Massimo ^a  

^a SAN FILIPPO NERI HOSPITAL   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CAGLIARI   (Italy)

Author keywords

Contractile reserve; Echocardiography; Levosimendan; Revascularisation

Indexed keywords

DOBUTAMINE; LEVOSIMENDAN;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEMOGRAPHY; DRUG MEGADOSE; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HEADACHE; HEART EJECTION FRACTION; HEART FAILURE; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE EJECTION FRACTION; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE FAILURE; HEART MUSCLE CONTRACTILITY; HEART MUSCLE REVASCULARIZATION; HUMAN; HYPOTENSION; ISCHEMIC HEART DISEASE; LOW DRUG DOSE; MALE; PERCUTANEOUS CORONARY INTERVENTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCORING SYSTEM; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TRANSLUMINAL CORONARY ANGIOPLASTY;

CARDIOTONIC AGENTS; DOBUTAMINE; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; HUMANS; HYDRAZONES; MYOCARDIAL CONTRACTION; MYOCARDIAL ISCHEMIA; PYRIDAZINES; VENTRICULAR DYSFUNCTION, LEFT;

EID: 34548247667     PISSN: 13889842     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ejheart.2007.05.003     Document Type: Article

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