Levosimendan in patients with decompensated heart failure;Levosimendana em pacientes com insuficiência cardíaca descompensada

Arquivos Brasileiros de Cardiologia

Volumn 91, Issue 2, 2008, Pages

  Da Rosa, Eduardo Maffini ^a   Osório, Ana Paula Susin ^a   Scopel, Luciano ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAXIAS DO SUL   (Brazil)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LEVOSIMENDAN;

DISEASE COURSE; HEART EJECTION FRACTION; HEART FAILURE; HUMAN; HYPOTENSION; LETTER; MEDICAL RESEARCH; RISK FACTOR; SYSTOLIC DYSFUNCTION;

CARDIOTONIC AGENTS; HEART FAILURE; HUMANS; HYDRAZONES; PYRIDAZINES;

EID: 49749098511     PISSN: 0066782X     EISSN: 16784170     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1590/S0066-782X2008001400010     Document Type: Letter

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