Intravenous levosimendan-norepinephrine combination during off-pump coronary artery bypass grafting in a hemodialysis patient with severe myocardial dysfunction

• Main Authors: Papadopoulos, Georgios, Baikoussis, Nikolaos G, Tzimas, Petros, Siminelakis, Stavros N, Karanikolas, Menelaos
• Other Authors: Παπαδόπουλος, Γεώργιος
• Format: Journal (paper)
• Language: English
• Published: 2012
• Subjects: hemodialysis; myocardial dysfunction

This the case of a 63 year-old man with end-stage renal disease (on chronic hemodialysis), unstable angina and significantly impaired myocardial contractility with low left ventricular ejection fraction, who underwent off-pump one vessel coronary bypass surgery. Combined continuous levosimendan and...