Browsing by Author "Bakkehaug, Jens Petter"
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Novel inotropic strategies for treating acute heart failure: A large animal study on cardiac function and energetics
Bakkehaug, Jens Petter (Doctoral thesis; Doktorgradsavhandling, 2017-02-16)Acute heart failure (AHF) is a disease with a mortality ranging from 5 to 40% depending on severity, despite modern revascularization techniques after acute myocardial thromboembolism. In this thesis we have investigated two new concepts of treating AHF. In paper 1 we investigated the combination of dobutamine and ivabradine (D+I) in a porcine model of stunning AHF. Ivabradine attenuated the ...