Publications by authors named "Isabelle Grafver"
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- The study explored the link between intestinal fatty acid-binding protein (I-FABP) levels and acute gastrointestinal injury (AGI) grades in patients undergoing endovascular aortic aneurysm repair.
- Higher I-FABP concentrations at 24 and 48 hours post-surgery correlated with increased AGI grades on the first three postoperative days, as well as a higher incidence of gastrointestinal complications.
- These findings suggest that monitoring I-FABP levels and AGI grades could help improve the management of GI complications in patients after this type of surgery.
Background: Splanchnic vasodilation by inodilators is an argument for their use in critical cardiac dysfunction. To isolate peripheral vasoactivity from inotropy, such drugs were investigated, and contrasted to vasopressors, in a fixed low cardiac output (CO) model resembling acute cardiac dysfunction effects on the gastrointestinal tract. We hypothesized that inodilators would vasodilate and preserve the aerobic metabolism in the splanchnic circulation in low CO.
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