Oxygenation improvement with nitric oxide in right-to-left shunt without significant effects on pulmonary arterial pressure

Chest

Volumn 110, Issue 5, 1996, Pages 1361-1363

  De Backer, Daniel ^a   Moures, Jean Marie ^a   Vachiéry, Jean Luc ^a   Leclerc, Jean Louis ^a   Kahn, Robert J ^a   Vincent, Jean Louis ^a  

^a ERASME HOSPITAL   (Belgium)

Author keywords

cardiac surgery; hypoxemia; myocardial infarction; nitric oxide; patent foramen ovale; postoperative care; respiratory failure; right ventricular failure

Indexed keywords

NITRIC OXIDE;

AGED; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; FEMALE; HEART ATRIUM SEPTUM DEFECT; HEART INFARCTION; HEART RIGHT LEFT SHUNT; HEART RIGHT VENTRICLE FAILURE; HUMAN; HYPOXEMIA; INHALATIONAL DRUG ADMINISTRATION; LUNG ARTERY PRESSURE; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

EID: 0029795330     PISSN: 00123692     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1378/chest.110.5.1361     Document Type: Article

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