Right heart function in thoracic surgery: Role of echocardiography

Current Opinion in Anaesthesiology

Volumn 22, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 44-49

  Pedoto, Alessia ^a   Amar, David ^a  

^a MEMORIAL SLOAN KETTERING CANCER CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Lung resection; Right ventricular dysfunction; Transesophageal echocardiography; Transthoracic echocardiography

Indexed keywords

ADULT RESPIRATORY DISTRESS SYNDROME; CHRONIC OBSTRUCTIVE LUNG DISEASE; DISEASE EXACERBATION; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; HEART FUNCTION; HEART RIGHT VENTRICLE; HEART RIGHT VENTRICLE FAILURE; HUMAN; HYPERTRANSLUCENT LUNG; LUNG RESECTION; LUNG TRANSPLANTATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PULMONARY ARTERY CATHETER; REVIEW; THORAX SURGERY; TRANSESOPHAGEAL ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; TRANSTHORACIC ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY;

ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY, TRANSESOPHAGEAL; HUMANS; MONITORING, INTRAOPERATIVE; PNEUMONECTOMY; THORACIC SURGICAL PROCEDURES; VENTRICULAR DYSFUNCTION, RIGHT; VENTRICULAR FUNCTION, RIGHT;

EID: 62349139088     PISSN: 09527907     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/ACO.0b013e32831d7b72     Document Type: Review

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