Skip to main content
Top
Published in: Journal of Clinical Monitoring and Computing 3/2020

01-06-2020 | Heart Surgery | Letter to the Editor

Reply to the comments of Dr Fayssoil

Authors: António Tralhão, Pedro Cavaleiro, Bernard Cholley

Published in: Journal of Clinical Monitoring and Computing | Issue 3/2020

Login to get access

Excerpt

We thank Dr Fayssoil for his interest in our recently published study on diaphragm evaluation using echo. While we acknowledge the clinical relevance of the three questions raised, this study was not designed, nor was it powered, to answer them. Numerous factors can hamper diaphragmatic function after sternotomy [1] and determining the role of each one individually would certainly require a much larger sample size. …
Literature
1.
go back to reference DeVita MA, Robinson LR, Rehder J, Hattler B, Cohen C. Incidence and natural history of phrenic neuropathy occurring during open heart surgery. Chest. 1993;103(3):850–6.CrossRef DeVita MA, Robinson LR, Rehder J, Hattler B, Cohen C. Incidence and natural history of phrenic neuropathy occurring during open heart surgery. Chest. 1993;103(3):850–6.CrossRef
2.
go back to reference Omar S, Zedan A, Nugent K. Cardiac vasoplegia syndrome: pathophysiology, risk factors and treatment. Am J Med Sci. 2015;349(1):80–8.CrossRef Omar S, Zedan A, Nugent K. Cardiac vasoplegia syndrome: pathophysiology, risk factors and treatment. Am J Med Sci. 2015;349(1):80–8.CrossRef
Metadata
Title
Reply to the comments of Dr Fayssoil
Authors
António Tralhão
Pedro Cavaleiro
Bernard Cholley
Publication date
01-06-2020
Publisher
Springer Netherlands
Published in
Journal of Clinical Monitoring and Computing / Issue 3/2020
Print ISSN: 1387-1307
Electronic ISSN: 1573-2614
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/s10877-019-00427-4

Other articles of this Issue 3/2020

Journal of Clinical Monitoring and Computing 3/2020 Go to the issue