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SUBMITTER: Agostoni P
PROVIDER: S-EPMC6848932 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Nov
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Agostoni Piergiuseppe P Farmakis Dimitrios T DT García-Pinilla Jose M JM Harjola Veli-Pekka VP Karason Kristjan K von Lewinski Dirk D Parissis John J Pollesello Piero P Pölzl Gerhard G Recio-Mayoral Alejandro A Reinecke Alexander A Yerly Patrik P Zima Endre E
Cardiac failure review 20191104 3
Acute and advanced heart failure are associated with substantial adverse short- and longer-term prognosis. Both conditions necessitate complex treatment choices to restore haemodynamic stability and organ perfusion, relieve congestion, improve symptoms and allow the patient to leave the hospital and achieve an adequate quality of life. Among the available intravenous vasoactive therapies, inotropes constitute an option when an increase in cardiac contractility is needed to reverse a low output s ...[more]