Heart rate control or tailored heart rate to improve ventriculo-arterial coupling in heart failure?

Int J Cardiol. 2018 Aug 15:265:171. doi: 10.1016/j.ijcard.2018.03.073.

Authors

Fabio Guarracino¹, Pietro Bertini²

Affiliations

¹ Department of Cardiothoracic Anaesthesia and Intensive Care Medicine, Azienda Ospedaliero Universitaria Pisana, Via Paradisa 2, 56123 Pisa, Italy. Electronic address: f.guarracino@ao-pisa.toscana.it.
² Department of Cardiothoracic Anaesthesia and Intensive Care Medicine, Azienda Ospedaliero Universitaria Pisana, Via Paradisa 2, 56123 Pisa, Italy.

PMID: 29885683
DOI: 10.1016/j.ijcard.2018.03.073

No abstract available

Keywords: Arterial elastance; Coupling; Heart rate control; Ventricular elastance.

Publication types

Letter
Comment

MeSH terms

Arteries
Heart Failure*
Heart Rate*
Humans
Stroke Volume
Ventricular Function, Left