Beneficial impact of levosimendan in critically ill patients with or at risk for acute renal failure: a meta-analysis of randomized clinical trials.

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Published in Heart Lung Vessel on January 01, 2015

Authors

Tiziana Bove1, Andrea Matteazzi1, Alessandro Belletti1, Gianluca Paternoster2, Omar Saleh1, Daiana Taddeo1, Roberto Dossi1, Teresa Greco3, Nikola Bradic4, Ino Husedzinovic4, Caetano Nigro Neto5, Vladimir V Lomivorotov6, Maria Grazia Calabrò1

Author Affiliations

1: Department of Anesthesia and Intensive Care, IRCCS San Raffaele Scientific Institute, Milan, Italy.
2: Anesthesia and Intensive Care, A.O. Regionale "San Carlo", Potenza, Italy.
3: Department of Anesthesia and Intensive Care, IRCCS San Raffaele Scientific Institute, Milan, Italy ; Section of Medical Statistics and Biometry Giulio A. Maccacaro, Department of Occupational and Environmental Health, University of Milan, Milan, Italy.
4: Department of Cardiovascular Anesthesia and Cardiac Intensive Care Medicine, Clinic of Anesthesiology, Reanimatology and Intensive Care Medicine.
5: Dante Pazzanese Institute of Cardiology, São Paulo, Brazil.
6: Department of Anesthesiology and Intensive Care, State Research Institute of Circulation Pathology, Novosibirsk, Russia.

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