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    Anesthesiology. 1990 Jun;72(6):966-70.

    Reevaluation of hemodynamic consequences of positive pressure ventilation: emphasis on cyclic right ventricular afterloading by mechanical lung inflation.

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    Intensive Care Unit, Hôpital Ambroise Paré, Boulogne, France.

    Abstract

    To examine the cyclic changes in right ventricular (RV) function induced by controlled ventilation, right heart catheterization and two-dimensional echocardiography were combined in a group of 20 patients requiring respiratory support for an episode of acute respiratory failure. Simultaneous measurements of RV pressure (using a modified pulmonary artery catheter), RV stroke output (thermodilution), and RV dimensions (two-dimensional echocardiography), permitted a beat to beat evaluation of RV function throughout the mechanical respiratory cycle. When compared with expiration, lung inflation produced an increase in RV systolic pressure and volume, an increase in RV diastolic volume with an unchanged RV diastolic pressure, and a marked decrease in RV ejection fraction. It is concluded that controlled ventilation altered RV function primarily by increasing RV afterload during the lung inflation period.

    PMID:
    2190501
    [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE]
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