Echocardiographic Evaluation of Pulmonary Pressures and Right Ventricular Function after Pediatric Cardiac Surgery: A Simple Approach for the Intensivist

Pulmonary hypertension (PH) is diagnosed using cardiac catheterization and is defined as an elevation of mean pulmonary artery pressure (PAP) greater than 25 mmHg. Although invasive hemodynamics remains the gold standard and is mandatory for disease confirmation, transthoracic echocardiography (TTE)...

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Autor principal: Beghetti, Maurice
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Frontiers Media S.A. 2017
Materias:
Pediatrics
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5581805/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28900614
http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fped.2017.00184

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https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5581805/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28900614
http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fped.2017.00184

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