Test driving levosimendan as the new "kidney protector": First impressions

Critical Care Medicine

Volumn 41, Issue 10, 2013, Pages 2445-2446

  Gamilla Crudo, Ann K ^a   Kadambi, Pradeep V ^a   Prough, Donald S ^a  

^a University of Texas Medical Branch School of Medicine   (United States)

Author keywords

acute kidney injury; cardiopulmonary bypass; glomerular filtration rate; levosimendan; renal blood flow

Indexed keywords

LEVOSIMENDAN; NORADRENALIN; OXYGEN; VASOACTIVE AGENT; VASOCONSTRICTOR AGENT;

ACUTE KIDNEY FAILURE; EDITORIAL; EXTRACTION; HEART FAILURE; HEART SURGERY; HUMAN; NONHUMAN; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RENAL PROTECTION; VASODILATATION;

CARDIOPULMONARY BYPASS; CARDIOTONIC AGENTS; FEMALE; GLOMERULAR FILTRATION RATE; HUMANS; HYDRAZONES; MALE; OXYGEN CONSUMPTION; PYRIDAZINES; RENAL CIRCULATION; THORACIC SURGICAL PROCEDURES;

EID: 84884826693     PISSN: 00903493     EISSN: 15300293     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/CCM.0b013e3182963fdc     Document Type: Editorial

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