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Levosimendan comes of age: twenty years in clinical use
Affiliations- Dipartimento di Anestesia e Terapie Intensive, Azienda Ospedaliero-Universitaria Pisana, Pisa, Italy
- Department of Anesthesia and Surgical ICU, University of Santiago de Compostela, Santiago de Compostela, Spain
- Cardiac Anaesthesia, University Hospital, Zürich, Switzerland
- Department of Anesthesiology, University Hospital, Ghent, Belgium
- Department of Anaesthesiology and Intensive Care Medicine, Division of Anaesthesiology for Cardiovascular Surgery and Intensive Care Medicine, Medical University of Graz, Graz, Austria
- Struttura Complessa di Anestesia 1, Policlinico di Modena, Modena, Italy
- Klinik für Anästhesiologie und Intensivmedizin, Universität zu Lübeck, Lübeck, Germany
- Department of Intensive Care, Erasme University Hospital, Brussels, Belgium
- Department of Anesthesiology and Intensive Care, Sahlgrenska Universitetssjukhuset, Gothenburg, Sweden
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Keywords
critical care, calcium sensitization, levosimendan, KATP channels, weaning, sepsis
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Levosimendan comes of age: twenty years in clinical use
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219-221
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2020-10-15
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Medical Research Journal 2020;5(4):219-221.
Keywords
critical care
calcium sensitization
levosimendan
KATP channels
weaning
sepsis
Authors
F. Guarracino
J. Alvarez
D. Bettex
S. Bouchez
S. Fruhwald
M. Girardis
M. Heringlake
A. Herpain
S. E. Ricksten
W. Toller
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