Does warm blood retrograde cardioplegia preserve right ventricular function?

Annals of Thoracic Surgery

Volumn 72, Issue 5, 2001, Pages 1572-1575

  Kulshrestha, Pankaj ^a   Rousou, John A ^a   Engelman, Richard M ^a   Flack III, Joseph E ^a   Deaton, David W ^a   Wait, Richard B ^a   Hampf, Heather M ^a  

^a BAYSTATE MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CARDIOPLEGIA; CARDIOPULMONARY BYPASS; FEMALE; HEART CATHETERIZATION; HEART RIGHT VENTRICLE EJECTION FRACTION; HEART RIGHT VENTRICLE FUNCTION; HEART VALVE REPLACEMENT; HEART VENTRICULOGRAPHY; HEMODYNAMIC PARAMETERS; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; WARMING;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; FEMALE; HEART ARREST, INDUCED; HEART VALVE DISEASES; HEMODYNAMIC PROCESSES; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; POSTOPERATIVE CARE; PREOPERATIVE CARE; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TEMPERATURE; VENTRICULAR FUNCTION, RIGHT;

EID: 0035158151     PISSN: 00034975     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0003-4975(01)03200-3     Document Type: Article

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