Management of severe pulmonary arterial hypertension

Seminars in Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine

Volumn 34, Issue 5, 2013, Pages 700-713

  Granton, John ^a,b   Mercier, Olaf ^c   De Perrot, Marc ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY HEALTH NETWORK   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^c CENTRE CHIRURGICAL MARIE LANNELONGUE   (France)

Author keywords

extracorporeal life support; intensive care; lung transplantation; pulmonary hypertension; right ventricular failure

Indexed keywords

CALCIUM CHANNEL BLOCKING AGENT; ETOMIDATE; KETAMINE; VASOCONSTRICTOR AGENT; VASODILATOR AGENT;

ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL VENTILATION; ATRIOVENTRICULAR NODAL REENTRY TACHYCARDIA; BETA ADRENERGIC RECEPTOR BLOCKING; BLEEDING; BLOOD PRESSURE; BLOOD VESSEL INJURY; CARDIOVASCULAR MORTALITY; CARDIOVASCULAR RISK; CORONARY ARTERY BLOOD FLOW; DISEASE SEVERITY; EXTRACORPOREAL OXYGENATION; HEART AFTERLOAD; HEART LUNG TRANSPLANTATION; HEART MUSCLE CONTRACTILITY; HEART OUTPUT; HEART PRELOAD; HEART RIGHT VENTRICLE FAILURE; HEART VENTRICLE FUNCTION; HUMAN; HYPOXEMIA; INFECTION; INTENSIVE CARE UNIT; KIDNEY FAILURE; MORBIDITY; NEUROLOGICAL COMPLICATION; NONINVASIVE VENTILATION; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PATIENT CARE; PATIENT MONITORING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PULMONARY HYPERTENSION; SUPRAVENTRICULAR TACHYCARDIA; TREATMENT INDICATION;

CARDIAC OUTPUT; EXTRACORPOREAL CIRCULATION; HEART FAILURE; HUMANS; HYPERTENSION, PULMONARY; INTENSIVE CARE; LUNG TRANSPLANTATION; MONITORING, PHYSIOLOGIC; MYOCARDIAL ISCHEMIA; RESPIRATION, ARTIFICIAL; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VENTRICULAR DYSFUNCTION, RIGHT;

EID: 84884323104     PISSN: 10693424     EISSN: 10989048     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1055/s-0033-1356460     Document Type: Article

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