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01-12-2020 | Heart Surgery | Editorial
The right ventricle after cardiopulmonary bypass: new insights on its adaptive physiology
Authors:
Gabriele Via, Guido Tavazzi, Karim Bendjelid
Published in:
Journal of Clinical Monitoring and Computing
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Issue 6/2020
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Excerpt
Post cardiopulmonary bypass (CPB) right ventricular (RV) dysfunction has been extensively described in cardiac surgery in past years, and attributed to either cardioplegia, myocardial hypothermia, cardiac stunning, and pericardiectomy [
1‐
3]. More recently, both a different contraction pattern [
4,
5] and a dissociation of RV output from RV longitudinal contraction [
6] have been described in this context, leading to some re-interpretation of what previously observed. …