Echo-Doppler demonstration of acute cor pulmonale at the bedside in the medical intensive care unit
Echo-Doppler demonstration of acute cor pulmonale at the bedside in the medical intensive care unit
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DOI:
10.1164/rccm.200202-146cc
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发表时间:
2002-11-15
影响因子:
24.7
通讯作者:
Jardin, F
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作者:
Vieillard-Baron, A;Prin, S;Jardin, F
For a long time, the only procedure available to the intensive most at the same time. When right ventricular systole is overloaded, right ventricular contraction is prolonged, so that the care unit physician to assess cardiac function at the bedside was right heart catheterization. Right heart catheterization allows right ventricle can continue to push after the left ventricle systole has ended (2). At this time, and for a short instant, the pressure measurements of pressure and flow and the computation of derived variables. But these require an appropriate integration in the right ventricular cavity may overcome that of the left ventricle, and reversal of the trans-septal pressure gradient imto obtain an accurate diagnosis. In other words, the aim of the quantitative evaluation obtained by right heart catheterization poses leftward displacement of the septal wall (Figure 1). Left and right ventricles are both enclosed in a stiff envelope, is to provide an indirect qualitative estimate of cardiac function. the pericardium. Both ventricles have similar end-diastolic vol-Conversely, echocardiographic evaluation is directly qualitative: umes, and there is no free space for ventricular dilatation in a by a simple visualization in real time of the kinetics and size of normal pericardial space. Thus, when right ventricular diastole cardiac cavities, an experienced critical care intensivist with a is overloaded, right ventricular enlargement can occur only at sufficient echocardiographic background can immediately estabthe expense of the space devoted to the left ventricle, which is lish a functional diagnosis. thus restricted. This clinical review aims at illustrating the valuable information provided by echocardiography for the assessment of cardiac function at the bedside. For that purpose, we have chosen a DESCRIPTION OF MAIN ECHOCARDIOGRAPHIC VIEWS particular and well-defined clinical setting, acute cor pulmonale. USED TO STUDY RIGHT VENTRICULAR FUNCTION IN