Acute, Severe Pulmonary Arterial Hypertension During Off-Pump Coronary Artery Surgery: Is New Myocardial Ischemia, Cardiac Repositioning, or External Mitral Valve Compression the Culprit?

Diana Khatib; Brent T Boettcher; Julie K Freed; Paul S Pagel

doi:10.1053/j.jvca.2016.03.007

Acute, Severe Pulmonary Arterial Hypertension During Off-Pump Coronary Artery Surgery: Is New Myocardial Ischemia, Cardiac Repositioning, or External Mitral Valve Compression the Culprit?

J Cardiothorac Vasc Anesth. 2016 Dec;30(6):1744-1747. doi: 10.1053/j.jvca.2016.03.007. Epub 2016 Mar 9.

Authors

Diana Khatib¹, Brent T Boettcher¹, Julie K Freed¹, Paul S Pagel²

Affiliations

¹ Anesthesia Service, Clement J. Zablocki Veterans Affairs Medical Center, Milwaukee, WI.
² Anesthesia Service, Clement J. Zablocki Veterans Affairs Medical Center, Milwaukee, WI. Electronic address: pspagel@mcw.edu.

PMID: 27431596
DOI: 10.1053/j.jvca.2016.03.007

No abstract available

Keywords: Octopus; cardiac repositioning; coronary artery disease; epicardial stabilization device; mitral valve deformation; myocardial ischemia; off-pump coronary artery surgery; severe mitral regurgitation.

Publication types

Case Reports

MeSH terms

Acute Disease
Coronary Artery Bypass, Off-Pump*
Diagnosis, Differential
Echocardiography, Doppler, Color
Echocardiography, Transesophageal
Heart / diagnostic imaging
Heart / physiopathology
Humans
Hypertension, Pulmonary / complications*
Male
Middle Aged
Mitral Valve / diagnostic imaging
Mitral Valve / physiopathology
Mitral Valve Insufficiency / diagnostic imaging*
Mitral Valve Insufficiency / physiopathology
Myocardial Ischemia