%0 Journal Article %T Norepinephrine, more than a vasopressor %A Emilio Daniel Valenzuela Espinoza %A Glenn Hernandez %A Jan Bakker %J Archive of "Annals of Translational Medicine". %D 2019 %R 10.21037/atm.2019.01.76 %X In a recent study, Hamzaoui et al. (1) reported that early use of norepinephrine (NE) in patients with septic shock increased cardiac systolic function despite the increase in left ventricular afterload secondary to the rise in mean arterial pressure (MAP) %U https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6462631/