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Lowering Pulmonary Wedge Pressure after Heart Transplant: Pulmonary Compliance and Resistance Effect

BACKGROUND: Right ventricular (RV) afterload is an important risk factor for post-heart transplantation (HTx) mortality, and it results from the interaction between pulmonary vascular resistance (PVR) and pulmonary compliance (CPA). Their product, the RC time, is believed to be constant. An exceptio...

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Autores principales: Moreira, Nádia, Baptista, Rui, Costa, Susana, Franco, Fátima, Pêgo, Mariano, Antunes, Manuel
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Sociedade Brasileira de Cardiologia 2015
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4592178/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26247246
http://dx.doi.org/10.5935/abc.20150083