Amlodipine, a widely used antihypertensive medication, can cause serious complications in overdose, including hypotension, bradycardia, non-cardiogenic pulmonary oedema (NCPO) and death. This report ...

We describe a woman in her late 20s with newly diagnosed systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE), who presented with fulminant pulmonary arterial hypertension (PAH) requiring inotropic and extracorporeal ...

Cardiogenic shock is the leading cause of ... Get a chest x-ray to look for pulmonary edema; check for elevated right heart pressures if it's not a right ventricular infarction; and check for ...

Outcomes for patients with cardiogenic shock (CS) have remained poor despite advances in mechanical ... Of note, in this model, filling pressures by pulmonary artery catheter and the etiology of CS ...

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Most of the change in stage of cardiogenic shock (CS) occurred within the first 24 hours of presentation, with little change thereafter, according to a study by the Cardiogenic Shock Working Group ...

Cardiogenic shock is a common complication in patients who present with acute myocardial infarction (AMI) and is the leading cause of death in this population. 1 Even with immediate revascularization, ...

Multidisciplinary teams and regionalized care systems have been suggested to improve cardiogenic shock (CS) outcomes. We sought to identify clinical factors associated with successful outcomes for ...

The goal of the trial was to evaluate treatment with an Impella percutaneous left ventricular assist device (LVAD) compared with an intra-aortic balloon pump (IABP) in patients with cardiogenic ...

Conclusion: VA-ECMO can significantly improve the survival outcomes of patients with cardiogenic shock following traumatic cardiac arrest. The use of interhospital air medical transport effectively ...

2 Department of Cardiology, University Hospital of North Staffordshire, Stoke-on-Trent, UK Correspondence to Dr Ajay Jain, Department of Cardiology, Barts Health NHS Trust, London Chest Hospital, ...