Cardiorespiratory interactions in patients with an artificial heart.
Anesthesiology
; 73(4): 599-609, 1990 Oct.
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| ID: mdl-2221427
ABSTRACT
A retrospective analysis of the influence of respiration was carried out in three patients with artificial hearts. During spontaneous ventilation, large swings in intrathoracic pressure can produce a pattern reminiscent of pulsus paradoxus in the systemic arterial pressure. A decrease in intrathoracic pressure decreased biventricular filling and enhanced biventricular emptying. An increase in intrathoracic pressure increased biventricular filling, but acting as an increased afterload, impeded biventricular emptying. The influence of respiration on the artificial heart can be considered the result of the artificial ventricles' functioning effectively as extrathoracic pumps, such that changes in intrathoracic pressure produce gradients for biventricular filling and ejection relative to atmospheric pressure (which serves as the reference pressure for the artificial ventricles). Respiratory-induced variation in ventricular performance is clearly present with the artificial heart, but the mechanisms producing these changes appear to be markedly different from normal conditions, in which the ventricles are functionally within the thorax and have a compliant common septum allowing ventricular interaction.
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01-internacional
Base de dados:
MEDLINE
Assunto principal:
Respiração
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Coração Artificial
Limite:
Humans
Idioma:
En
Ano de publicação:
1990
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Article