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Intensive Care Medicine
Published in: Intensive Care Medicine 7/2004

01-07-2004 | Correspondence

Severe myocardial depression following intravenous nimodipine for aneurysmal subarachnoid haemorrhage

Authors: Kandasamy Subramani, Murad Ghrew

Published in: Intensive Care Medicine | Issue 7/2004

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Sir: We report a case of aneurysmal subarachnoid haemorrhage (SAH) treated with intravenous nimodipine. The patient had myocardial dysfunction which did not respond to high doses of inotropes and vasopressor. Discontinuation of nimodipine improved myocardial function, suggesting that nimodipine worsens the myocardial dysfunction accompanying SAH. Nimodipine was reintroduced after improvement in myocardial function, and was tolerated. …
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Metadata
Title
Severe myocardial depression following intravenous nimodipine for aneurysmal subarachnoid haemorrhage
Authors
Kandasamy Subramani
Murad Ghrew
Publication date
01-07-2004
Publisher
Springer-Verlag
Published in
Intensive Care Medicine / Issue 7/2004
Print ISSN: 0342-4642
Electronic ISSN: 1432-1238
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/s00134-004-2250-4

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