| ICU Management of Patients with Severe Pulmonary Hypertension and Right Heart Failure. | |
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PMID: 21700906 Owner: NLM Status: Publisher |
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Despite advances in medical therapies, pulmonary arterial hypertension (PAH), continues to cause significant morbidity and mortality. Although the right ventricle can adapt to an increase in afterload, progression of the pulmonary vasculopathy that characterizes PAH causes many patients to develop progressive right ventricular failure. Furthermore acute right ventricular decompensation may develop from disorders that lead to either an acute increase in cardiac demand such as sepsis, or increase in ventricular afterload including interruptions in medical therapy, arrhythmia, or pulmonary embolism. The poor reserve of the right ventricle, RV ischemia and adverse right ventricular influence on left ventricular filling may lead to a global reduction in oxygen delivery and multi-organ failure. There is a paucity of data to guide clinicians caring for acute right heart failure in PAH. Treatment recommendations are frequently based upon animal models of acute right heart failure or case series in humans with other causes of pulmonary hypertension. Successful treatment often requires that invasive hemodynamics be used to monitor the effect of strategies that are based primarily upon biological plausibility. Herein we have developed an approach based upon the current understanding of RV failure in PAH and have attempted to develop a treatment paradigm based upon physiological principles and available evidence. |
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Authors:
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Marius M Hoeper; John Granton |
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Type: JOURNAL ARTICLE Date: 2011-6-23 |
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Title: American journal of respiratory and critical care medicine Volume: - ISSN: 1535-4970 ISO Abbreviation: - Publication Date: 2011 Jun |
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Created Date: 2011-6-24 Completed Date: - Revised Date: - |
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Nlm Unique ID: 9421642 Medline TA: Am J Respir Crit Care Med Country: - |
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Languages: ENG Pagination: - Citation Subset: - |
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Department of Respiratory Medicine, Hannover Medical School, Hannover, Germany. |
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