Inducible left ventricular outflow tract gradient during dobutamine stress echocardiography: An association with intraoperative hypotension but not a contraindication to liver transplantation

Echocardiography

Volumn 21, Issue 8, 2004, Pages 681-685

  Maraj, Suraj ^a   Jacobs, Larry E ^a   Maraj, Rajiv ^a   Contreras, Rafael ^a   Rerkpattanapipat, Pairoj ^a   Malik, Taseem A ^a   Manzarbeitia, Cosme ^a   Munoz, Santiago ^a   Rothstein, Kenneth ^a   Kotler, Morris N ^a  

^a ALBERT EINSTEIN MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Cirrhosis; Cirrhotic cardiomyopathy; End stage liver disease; Hemodynamics; Hypotension; Orthotopic liver transplantation

Indexed keywords

DOBUTAMINE;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CARDIOMYOPATHY; CARDIOVASCULAR RISK; CIRRHOTIC CARDIOMYOPATHY; DOBUTAMINE STRESS ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; GRAFT FUNCTION; GRAFT SURVIVAL; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE OUTFLOW TRACT; HEMODYNAMICS; HUMAN; HYPOTENSION; LENGTH OF STAY; LIVER CIRRHOSIS; LIVER FAILURE; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORTALITY; PEROPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PRESSURE GRADIENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; STRESS ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; TREATMENT CONTRAINDICATION;

ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY, STRESS; FEMALE; HUMANS; LIVER DISEASES; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RISK FACTORS; VENTRICULAR DYSFUNCTION, LEFT;

EID: 9244223094     PISSN: 07422822     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.0742-2822.2004.03068.x     Document Type: Article

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