[Levosimendan for septic shock with takotsubo cardiomyopathy].
This article reports the case of an 82-year-old female patient who presented with acute abdomen due to adhesion ileus and takotsubo cardiomyopathy, developed severe septic shock with peritonitis and could be successfully hemodynamically stabilized with levosimendan.
PMID: 26620046 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]
Source: Der Anaesthesist - Category: Anesthesiology Authors: Schlürmann CN, Reinöhl J, Kalbhenn J Tags: Anaesthesist Source Type: research
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