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Cardiac dysfunction during exercise in uncomplicated type 2 diabetes.

[Levosimendan, a new inotropic drug: experience in children with acute heart failure].

Bosentan enhances viral load via endothelin-1 receptor type-A-mediated p38 mitogen-activated protein kinase activation while improving cardiac function during coxsackievirus-induced myocarditis.

Lithium dilution cardiac output measurement in the critically ill patient: determination of precision of the technique

Monitoring pulmonary perfusion by electrical impedance tomography: an evaluation in a pig model.

Tezosentan normalizes hepatomesenteric perfusion in a porcine model of cardiac tamponade.

DEFEAT - Heart Failure: a guide to management of geriatric heart failure by generalist physicians.

Nesiritide: first use in India.

Mechanisms of disease/hypothesis: neurogenic left ventricular dysfunction and neurogenic pulmonary oedema.

Markers of endothelial dysfunction after cardiac surgery: soluble forms of vascular-1 and intercellular-1 adhesion molecules.

Heart failure, central sleep apnea, CPAP, and arousals: another piece of the puzzle.

Percutaneous mitral valvuloplasty in patients with low cardiac output at high surgical risk.

Ventricular assist device applications.

[Superiority of levosimendan to dobutamine in postoperative low cardiac output syndrome: is it due to previous beta-blocker treatment?]

Inotropic therapy for cardiac low output syndrome: comparison of hemodynamic effects of dopamine/dobutamine versus dopamine/dopexamine.

Cardiac Resynchronization Therapy Improves Renal Function in Human Heart Failure With Reduced Glomerular Filtration Rate

Medtronic Hall valve malfunction due to pannus formation in the aortic position with peculiar movement of the leaflet: a case report.

Pumpless extracorporeal lung assist: a 10-year institutional experience.

Levosimendan infusion improves haemodynamics in elderly heart failure patients undergoing urgent hip fracture repair.

Air pollution fails the heart; vitamins may help.