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Importance of right heart catheterization in advanced heart failure management [PDF]

open access: yesReviews in Cardiovascular Medicine, 2022
Patients with chronic congestive heart failure belong to a population with reduced quality of life, poor functional class, and increased risk of mortality and morbidity.
John M. Cochran   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

Comparison of echocardiographic indices of right ventricular systolic function and ejection fraction obtained with continuous thermodilution in critically ill patients

open access: yesCritical Care, 2019
Background Though echocardiographic evaluation assesses the right ventricular systolic function, which of the existing parameters best reflects the right ventricular ejection fraction (RVEF) in the critically ill patients is still uncertain.
Romain Barthélémy   +4 more
doaj   +1 more source

Assessment of left atrial volume before and after pulmonary thromboendarterectomy in chronic thromboembolic pulmonary hypertension. [PDF]

open access: yes, 2014
BackgroundImpaired left ventricular diastolic filling is common in chronic thromboembolic pulmonary hypertension (CTEPH), and recent studies support left ventricular underfilling as a cause.
Auger, William R   +7 more
core   +3 more sources

Ruptura da artéria pulmonar pelo cateter de Swan-Ganz: relato de caso Pulmonary artery rupture by the Swan-Ganz catheter: case report

open access: yesRevista Brasileira de Terapia Intensiva, 2009
O cateter de artéria pulmonar é frequentemente usado na monitorização de pacientes durante o transplante hepático. O advento de métodos menos invasivos para estimar o débito cardíaco e a pressão de oclusão da artéria pulmonar, aliado ao fracasso de ...
Marcos Coutinho Schechter   +4 more
doaj   +1 more source

Trimetazidine in heart failure with preserved ejection fraction: a randomized controlled cross‐over trial

open access: yesESC Heart Failure, 2023
Aims Impaired myocardial energy homeostasis plays an import role in the pathophysiology of heart failure with preserved ejection fraction (HFpEF). Left ventricular relaxation has a high energy demand, and left ventricular diastolic dysfunction has been ...
Arno A. van deBovenkamp   +10 more
doaj   +1 more source

Nurses' attitudinal and normative beliefs concerning hemodynamic assessement by pulmonary artery catheterization Creencias normativas y de actitud de los enfermeros sobre el estudio hemodinámico por medio del catéter de arteria pulmonar Crenças atitudinais e normativas dos enfermeiros sobre o estudo hemodinâmico por meio do cateter de artéria pulmonar

open access: yesRevista Latino-Americana de Enfermagem, 2006
The objective of this study was to identify, by using the Theory of Reasoned Action/Theory of Planned Behavior, the attitude and normative beliefs that influence the behavioral intention of the nurse to perform a hemodynamic assessment using the ...
Cristiano José Mendes Pinto   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

Hemodynamic effects of local anesthetics intoxication: experimental study in swine with levobupivacaine and bupivacaine Efeitos hemodinâmicos da intoxicação com anestésicos locais: estudo experimental em suínos com levobupivacaína e bupivacaína

open access: yesActa Cirúrgica Brasileira, 2008
PURPOSE: To compare the hemodynamic repercussions following a toxic dose of levobupivacaine and bupivacaine intravascularly injected in swines. Methods: Large White pigs were anesthetized with thiopental, tracheal intubation was performed and mechanical ...
Artur Udelsmann   +5 more
doaj   +1 more source

PULMONARY ARTERY PSEUDOANEURYSM: A RARE VASCULAR LESION AFTER RIGHT HEART CATHETERIZATION

open access: yesAngiologia e Cirurgia Vascular, 2017
Pulmonary artery pseudoaneurysms may be caused by infection, trauma, neoplasm or iatrogenic lesions, such as pulmonary artery rupture during right heart artery catheterization.
André Gomes, Paula Campos
doaj   +1 more source

Extrahepatic complications of liver transplantation. [PDF]

open access: yes, 1985
The massive surgical assault associated with hepatic transplantation makes a high frequency of complications almost inevitable. In this review of 225 patient records, selected at random from cases of liver transplantation in Pittsburgh over a 2 1/2 year ...
Shaw, BW, Starzl, TE, Wood, RP
core   +1 more source

Stenting as a Rescue Treatment of a Pulmonary Artery False Aneurysm Caused by Swan-Ganz Catheterization

open access: yesCase Reports in Pulmonology, 2014
Pulmonary vascular injury is a rare but life-threatening complication of Swan-Ganz catheterization. We report an 82-year old patient who underwent right heart catheterization by a balloon-tipped catheter because of suspected pulmonary hypertension. After
Stefanie Keymel   +4 more
doaj   +1 more source

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