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The Use of Terlipressin for Management of Dynamic Left Ventricular Outflow Tract Obstruction Complicating Othotropic Liver Transplantation: A Case Report
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The Use of Terlipressin for Management of Dynamic Left Ventricular Outflow Tract Obstruction Complicating Othotropic Liver Transplantation: A Case Report

A. Mukhtar, F. Aboulfetouh, M. Salah, A. Hamza and M. Elmeteini
Transplantation proceedings, Vol.43(5), pp.2075-2077
01/06/2011
PMID: 21693329

Abstract

Immunology Life Sciences & Biomedicine Science & Technology Surgery Transplantation
We describe a patient with structurally normal heart who developed hemodynamic instability during orthotropic liver transplantation caused by severe dynamic left ventricular outflow tract obstruction. Successful management of this adverse event was facilitated by the use of intravenous terlipressin. The case highlights a role for terlipressin as a selective vasopressin receptor agonist with subsequent effects on systemic vascular resistance.

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