The effect of short-term isometric muscle contraction and the Valsalva maneuver on systemic and pulmonary hemodynamics in patients with severe heart failure

Clinical Cardiology

Volumn 32, Issue 6, 2009, Pages E31-E38

  Soucek, Miroslav ^a   Frana, Petr ^a   Kara, Tomas ^a   Sitar, Jan ^a   Halamek, Josef ^b   Jurak, Pavel ^b   Rihacek, Ivan ^a   Spinarova, Lenka ^a   Oral, Ivo ^c  

^a ST ANNE S UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Czech Republic)

^b INSTITUTE OF SCIENTIFIC INSTRUMENTS   (Czech Republic)

^c Department of Anesthesiology and Resuscitation   (Czech Republic)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACETYLSALICYLIC ACID; ANGIOTENSIN RECEPTOR ANTAGONIST; ANTICOAGULANT AGENT; ANTITHROMBOCYTIC AGENT; BETA ADRENERGIC RECEPTOR BLOCKING AGENT; DIGOXIN; DIPEPTIDYL CARBOXYPEPTIDASE INHIBITOR; LOOP DIURETIC AGENT; NITRATE; SPIRONOLACTONE;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BLOOD PRESSURE; BLOOD PRESSURE FLUCTUATION; BREATHING; CARDIAC PATIENT; CLINICAL ARTICLE; DISEASE SEVERITY; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY MONITORING; FEMALE; HEART EJECTION FRACTION; HEART FAILURE; HEART HEMODYNAMICS; HEART RATE VARIABILITY; HUMAN; LEG MUSCLE; LUNG ARTERY PRESSURE; LUNG HEMODYNAMICS; MALE; MUSCLE ISOMETRIC CONTRACTION; VALSALVA MANEUVER;

EID: 67650458703     PISSN: 01609289     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/clc.20390     Document Type: Article

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