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Unloading using Impella CP during profound cardiogenic shock caused by left ventricular failure in a large animal model: impact on the right ventricle.

Jakob JosiassenOle Kristian Lerche HelgestadNanne Louise Junker UdesenAnn BankePeter Hartmund FrederiksenJanus Adler HyldebrandtHenrik SchmidtLisette Okkels JensenChristian HassagerHanne Berg RavnJacob E Møller
Published in: Intensive care medicine experimental (2020)
The Impella CP provided efficient LV unloading, improved RV function, and end-organ perfusion. Moderate doses of norepinephrine during Impella support further improved RV function, but at the expense of an increase in SW of the failing LV.
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