Left ventricular diastolic dysfunction of the cardiac surgery patient; a point of view for the cardiac surgeon and cardio-anesthesiologist

Journal of Cardiothoracic Surgery

Volumn 4, Issue 1, 2009, Pages

  Apostolakis, Efstratios E ^a   Baikoussis, Nikolaos G ^a,b   Parissis, Haralabos ^c   Siminelakis, Stavros N ^b   Papadopoulos, Georgios S ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PATRAS   (Greece)

^b UNIVERSITY OF IOANNINA   (Greece)

^c BASILDON HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANESTHESIOLOGY; CARDIOVASCULAR SURGERY; CLINICAL PROTOCOL; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE FUNCTION; HUMAN; METHODOLOGY; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PEROPERATIVE CARE; REVIEW; RISK FACTOR; THORAX SURGERY;

ANESTHESIOLOGY; CARDIOVASCULAR SURGICAL PROCEDURES; CLINICAL PROTOCOLS; HUMANS; INTRAOPERATIVE CARE; RISK FACTORS; THORACIC SURGERY; VENTRICULAR DYSFUNCTION, LEFT;

EID: 71949099027     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17498090     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1749-8090-4-67     Document Type: Review

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