Clinical review: practical recommendations on the management of perioperative heart failure in cardiac surgery.

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Published in Crit Care on April 28, 2010

Authors

Alexandre Mebazaa1, Antonis A Pitsis, Alain Rudiger, Wolfgang Toller, Dan Longrois, Sven-Erik Ricksten, Ilona Bobek, Stefan De Hert, Georg Wieselthaler, Uwe Schirmer, Ludwig K von Segesser, Michael Sander, Don Poldermans, Marco Ranucci, Peter C J Karpati, Patrick Wouters, Manfred Seeberger, Edith R Schmid, Walter Weder, Ferenc Follath

Author Affiliations

1: Department of Anaesthesia and Intensive care, INSERM UMR 942, Lariboisière Hospital, University of Paris 7 - Diderot, 2 rue Ambroise Paré, Paris, France. alexandre.mebazaa@lrb.aphp.fr

Associated clinical trials:

Glutamate for Metabolic Intervention in Coronary Surgery II (GLUTAMICSII) | NCT02592824

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