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Home inotrope treatment for intractable heart failure following heart transplantation
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- Published on: 9 January 2022
- Published on: 9 January 2022Might these patients do better without inotropes?Show More
Dear Editor,
Looking at the problem from a metabolic perspective it would seem to me that the therapeutic objective in these patients might be to achieve the highest cardiac reserve at rest by increasing the nutrient energy density per unit volume of flowing blood. This should optimise their capacity for increasing ATP resynthesis by oxidative phosphorylation in response to a sudden increase in need for energy f...
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