Mechanisms of vasopressin hypersensitivity in septic shock
Patients in prolonged, catecholamine-refractory septic shock have plasma vasopressin levels inappropriately low for their hypotension, yet show enhanced responses to exogenously administered hormone. I hypothesised that altered vasopressin signalling within vascular smooth muscle is responsible for...
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University College London (University of London)
2008
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