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

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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Main Author: Maurice Beghetti
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Frontiers Media S.A. 2017-08-01
Series:Frontiers in Pediatrics
Subjects:
hypertension pulmonary
echocardiography
pulmonary pressure
heart defect
congenital
postoperative period
Online Access:http://journal.frontiersin.org/article/10.3389/fped.2017.00184/full

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