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The right ventricular annular velocity reduction caused by coronary artery bypass graft surgery occurs at the moment of pericardial incision

BACKGROUND: Right ventricular (RV) long-axis function is known to be depressed after cardiac surgery, but the mechanism is not known. We hypothesized that intraoperative transesophageal echocardiography could pinpoint the time at which this happens to help narrow the range of plausible mechanisms. M...

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Autores principales: Unsworth, Beth, Casula, Roberto P., Kyriacou, Andreas A., Yadav, Hemang, Chukwuemeka, Andrew, Cherian, Ashok, Stanbridge, Rex de Lisle, Athanasiou, Thanos, Mayet, Jamil, Francis, Darrel P.
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Mosby 2010
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2822903/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20152232
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ahj.2009.11.013