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Hemodynamic and Metabolic Effects During Cardiogenic Shock in Patients With Triple Coronary Artery Obstructive Disease

Donald N. Summers, MD; Martin Kaplitt, MD; Jay Norris, MD; Robert Rubin, MD; Robert Nacht, MD; Allan Arieff, MD; Myles Lee, MD; Bernard Wechsler, MD; Phillip N. Sawyer, MD

AMA Arch Surg. 1969;99(6):733-738.

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Mechanical devices which maintain viability during periods of reduced or absent mechanical cardiac function have permitted the utilization of a variety of surgical techniques for the treatment of acquired and congenital cardiac disease. In addition, many advances in cardiac pharmacology have improved the treatment of abnormal mechanical and electrical cardiac function.

Despite a variety of therapeutic approaches, survival rate of hospital patients in cardiogenic shock remains between 10% to 20%.¹ Malach and Rosenberg² reviewed 264 consecutive cases of acute myocardial infarction at this institution and found the frequency of cardiogenic shock to be 9.4%. Those patients in shock were treated with several pharmacologic and volume replacement regimens with no survivors. More recently, Eichna³ reported on the treatment of 26 cardiogenic shock cases at this institution using intravenously administered isoproterenol hydrochloride as the major pharmacologic agent. The death rate was 72%. Drugs remain the most frequent means of . . . [Full Text PDF of this Article]

Author Affiliations
Brooklyn, NY

From the departments of medicine (Drs. Summers, Norris, Nacht, Arieff, and Wechsler) and surgery (Drs. Kaplitt, Rubin, Lee, and Sawyer), Downstate Medical Center, State University of New York, and Kings County Hospital Center, Brooklyn, NY.

Footnotes
Submitted for publication Aug 5, 1969.

Read before the 17th scientific meeting of the North American Chapter of the International Cardiovascular Society, New York, July 11, 1969.

Reprint requests to 450 Clark Ave, Brooklyn, NY 11203 (Dr. Summers).

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