Wiesenack, Christoph and Prasser, Christopher and Liebold, Andreas and Schmid, Franz X. (2004) Assessment of left ventricular cardiac output by arterial thermodilution technique via a left atrial catheter in a patient on a right ventricular assist device. PERFUSION-UK, 19 (1). pp. 73-75. ISSN 0267-6591
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Following heart transplantation (HTx) in a 49-year old male, the patient's haemodynamic situation deteriorated in the early postoperative period despite increasing doses of catecholamines. When transoesophageal echocardiography ( TEE) showed a dilated right ventricle, but adequate left ventricular (LV) function, a right ventricular assist device (RVAD) was implanted to support the right ventricle of the failing graft. Evaluation of the resulting cardiac output (CO) of the left ventricle and, thus, assessment of the remaining right ventricular function in patients supported by a RVAD is of great clinical interest. In this situation, continuous measurement of LV function, enabling assessment of the remaining right ventricular function, can be performed by pulse contour analysis following initial calibration of the system by arterial thermodilution CO measurement via a left atrial catheter.
| Item Type: | Article |
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| Uncontrolled Keywords: | TRANSESOPHAGEAL ECHOCARDIOGRAPHIC EVALUATION; HEART-TRANSPLANTATION; SODIUM-NITROPRUSSIDE; FAILURE; PROSTACYCLIN; THERAPY; SUPPORT; |
| Subjects: | 600 Technology > 610 Medical sciences Medicine |
| Divisions: | Medicine > Lehrstuhl für Anästhesiologie Medicine > Lehrstuhl für Herz-, Thorax- und herznahe Gefäßchirurgie |
| Depositing User: | Dr. Gernot Deinzer |
| Date Deposited: | 10 Aug 2021 06:04 |
| Last Modified: | 10 Aug 2021 06:04 |
| URI: | https://pred.uni-regensburg.de/id/eprint/38238 |
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