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Comparative study between stress echocardiography with dobutamine and dipyridamol
The diagnostic accuracy of stress echocardiography with dobutamine and dipyridamole was evaluated in 15 patients with stable effort angina who underwent coronary angiography, whose indication was not related to the objectives of this study.
Juan Prohías Martínez +2 more
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Purpose: Dobutamine, a sympathomimetic agent, is widely used clinically, influencing cardiac output, heart rate (HR), and blood pressure (BP), which may impact cerebral blood flow (CBF), critical for brain metabolism.
Fengxia Yu +14 more
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Mycoplasma pneumonia : an unusual cause of acute myocarditis in childhood [PDF]
Mycoplasma pneumoniae is primarily a respiratory pathogen but may affect exhibit a diverse range of presentations from asymptomatic infection to life threatening conditions. Myocarditis of varying severity is an unusual complication.
Bailey, Mark +4 more
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Surgical embolectomy for acute massive pulmonary embolism: state of the art [PDF]
Massive pulmonary embolism (PE) is a severe condition that can potentially lead to death caused by right ventricular (RV) failure and the consequent cardiogenic shock.
De Bellis, Antonio +8 more
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ABSTRACT Background Vancomycin (VCM), a first‐line treatment option for infections caused by methicillin‐resistant Staphylococcus aureus, has been reported to cause nephrotoxicity even within therapeutic concentration ranges. Traditional therapeutic drug monitoring strategies rely primarily on the area under the concentration–time curve (AUC), without ...
Yoshihiko Matsuki +6 more
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Aortic stenting in the growing sheep causes aortic endothelial dysfunction but not hypertension: Clinical implications for coarctation repair [PDF]
Stent implantation is the treatment of choice for adolescents and adults with aortic coarctation (CoAo). Despite excellent short-term results, 20%-40% of the patients develop arterial hypertension later in life, which was attributed to inappropriate ...
Aresu, Luca +14 more
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Intraoperative Use of Vasoactive Agents in Non‐Cardiac Surgery: Protocol for a Post Hoc Cohort Study
ABSTRACT Background Intraoperative hypotension is a well‐known clinical condition and often treated with vasoactive agents. Previous cohort studies have indicated that large numbers of patients receive this treatment, but they have been limited to specific surgical populations or single agents.
Emilie Stokholm Bækgaard +6 more
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Hypovolemic shock is a circulatory failure, due to a loss in the effective circulating blood volume, that causes tissue hypoperfusion and hypoxia.
Federica Mannino +9 more
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Background The conventional dobutamine protocol for the investigation of induced myocardial ischemia is well established. Our objective was to evaluate the effects of early administration of atropine during the dobutamine stress echocardiogram, as ...
Resende Plínio +4 more
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Safety and feasibility of dobutamine-atropine stress echocardiography for the diagnosis of coronary artery disease in diabetic patients unable to perform an exercise stress test [PDF]
OBJECTIVE: Dobutamine stress testing is increasingly used for the diagnosis and functional evaluation of coronary artery disease. However, little is known about the safety and feasibility of this stress modality in diabetic ...
Bax, J.J. (Jeroen) +6 more
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