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Case Reports
. 2004 Jul;26(1):228-30.
doi: 10.1016/j.ejcts.2004.03.034.

Treatment of acute heart failure in an infant after cardiac surgery using levosimendan

Jan-Peter Braun  1 , Martin Schneider, Marc Kastrup, Jianshi Liu
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Case Reports

Treatment of acute heart failure in an infant after cardiac surgery using levosimendan

Jan-Peter Braun et al. Eur J Cardiothorac Surg. 2004 Jul.

Abstract

An infant, 2 months old, underwent cardiac surgery because of congenital heart defects and pulmonary hypertension. Surgery was performed in hypothermia and cardiac standstill. On the second day after surgery the infant had to be resuscitated due to a combination of acute left-ventricular failure, pulmonary vascular hypertension and a slight right-to-left-shunt. A breakthrough in the treatment was achieved by using levosimendan to improve left-ventricular function and to decrease vascular resistance.

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