Perioperative considerations in patients with cirrhotic cardiomyopathy

Current Opinion in Anaesthesiology

Volumn 23, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 128-132

  Biancofiore, Gianni ^a   Mandell, Mercedes Susan ^b   Della Rocca, Giorgio ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL OF PISA   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF UDINE   (Italy)

Author keywords

Complications; Hemodynamic monitoring; Liver cirrhosis; Perioperative care; Physiological

Indexed keywords

CARDIOMYOPATHY; CLINICAL FEATURE; CONGESTIVE CARDIOMYOPATHY; DIASTOLIC DYSFUNCTION; GRAFT FAILURE; HEART FAILURE; HEART INFARCTION; HEART MUSCLE CONTRACTILITY; HEART OUTPUT; HEMODYNAMIC MONITORING; HUMAN; LIVER CIRRHOSIS; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; PERIOPERATIVE PERIOD; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; THERMODILUTION; TRANSESOPHAGEAL ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; TRANSJUGULAR INTRAHEPATIC PORTOSYSTEMIC SHUNT;

ANESTHESIA; CARDIOMYOPATHY, ALCOHOLIC; HEMODYNAMICS; HUMANS; LIVER CIRRHOSIS, ALCOHOLIC; MONITORING, PHYSIOLOGIC; PERIOPERATIVE CARE;

EID: 77952233306     PISSN: 09527907     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/ACO.0b013e328337260a     Document Type: Review

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