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J Appl Physiol (1985)
July 2023
Department of Pulmonary Medicine, Amsterdam University Medical Centre, Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
Adaptation of the right ventricle (RV) to a progressively increasing afterload is one of the hallmarks of pulmonary arterial hypertension (PAH). Pressure-volume loop analysis provides measures of load-independent RV contractility, i.e.
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February 2020
Department of Medicine, Division of Pulmonary, Critical Care, Allergy and Sleep Medicine, Medical University of South Carolina, Charleston, SC.
Background: Both elevated pleural elastance (E-P) and radiographic evidence of incomplete lung expansion following thoracentesis have been used to exclude patients with a malignant pleural effusion (MPE) from undergoing pleurodesis. This article reports on a cohort of patients with MPE in whom complete drainage was attempted with pleural manometry to determine the frequency of E-P and its relation with postthoracentesis radiographic findings.
Methods: Seventy consecutive patients with MPE who underwent therapeutic pleural drainage with pleural manometry were identified.
Acta Cardiol
June 2010
Dept. of Cardiology, AZ ZVB Ronse, Belgium.
We present a case of a 69-year-old woman with constrictive pericarditis preceded by effusive-constrictive pericarditis. Echocardiography on admission revealed a mild pericardial effusion, pericardial thickening and a constrictive physiology in the absence of RV pressure/volume overload suggesting effusive-constrictive pericarditis. Echocardiographic follow-up showed gradual disappearance of the effusion within one month and an important thickening of the visceral and parietal pericardium up to 9 mm.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBackground: Partial left ventriculectomy (PLV) helps some patients but is deleterious in others. Selection of patients who will benefit from PLV, and exclusion of those who will not is necessary for safe and effective application of the procedure.
Methods: Sixty-nine consecutive patients who underwent PLV were monitored with pressure-volume relationship analyses, Doppler echocardiography, and histopathologic studies of excised myocardium.
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