Ventricular Function, Right

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  Subject Areas on Research

  • An opportunistic study evaluating pharmacokinetics of sildenafil for the treatment of pulmonary hypertension in infants. 
  • Comparison of right and left ventricular function and size in Duchenne muscular dystrophy. 
  • Comprehensive assessment of right ventricular function in patients with pulmonary hypertension with global longitudinal peak systolic strain derived from multiple right ventricular views. 
  • Diastolic right ventricular filling vortex in normal and volume overload states. 
  • Durability and clinical impact of tricuspid valve procedures in patients receiving a continuous-flow left ventricular assist device. 
  • Echocardiography in the Risk Assessment of Acute Pulmonary Embolism. 
  • Evaluation of Right Ventricular Myocardial Mechanics Using Velocity Vector Imaging of Cardiac MRI Cine Images in Transposition of the Great Arteries Following Atrial and Arterial Switch Operations. 
  • Hemodynamic Characterization of Rodent Models of Pulmonary Arterial Hypertension. 
  • Impact of concurrent surgical valve procedures in patients receiving continuous-flow devices. 
  • Impact of initial norwood shunt type on right ventricular deformation: the single ventricle reconstruction trial. 
  • Impact of initial shunt type on cardiac size and function in children with single right ventricle anomalies before the Fontan procedure: the single ventricle reconstruction extension trial. 
  • Implication of right ventricular dysfunction on long-term outcome in patients with ischemic cardiomyopathy undergoing coronary artery bypass grafting with or without surgical ventricular reconstruction. 
  • Improving on the diagnostic characteristics of echocardiography for pulmonary hypertension. 
  • In acute lung injury, inhaled nitric oxide improves ventilation-perfusion matching, pulmonary vascular mechanics, and transpulmonary vascular efficiency. 
  • Inhaled nitric oxide, right ventricular efficiency, and pulmonary vascular mechanics: selective vasodilation of small pulmonary vessels during hypoxic pulmonary vasoconstriction. 
  • Initial Experience of Left Ventricular Assist Device Support for Adult Patients with Transposition of the Great Vessels. 
  • Intramyocardial air causes right ventricular dysfunction after repair of a congenital heart defect. 
  • Load-independent analysis of a pulsatile right ventricular assist device. 
  • Long-term assessment of right ventricular diastolic filling in patients with pulmonic valve stenosis successfully treated in childhood. 
  • Mechanisms of transplant right ventricular dysfunction. 
  • Myocardial Damage Detected by Late Gadolinium Enhancement Cardiac Magnetic Resonance Is Uncommon in Peripartum Cardiomyopathy. 
  • Nitric oxide improves transpulmonary vascular mechanics but does not change intrinsic right ventricular contractility in an acute respiratory distress syndrome model with permissive hypercapnia. 
  • Normal myocardial function in severe right ventricular volume overload hypertrophy. 
  • PINOT NOIR: pulmonic insufficiency improvement with nitric oxide inhalational response. 
  • PRO editorial: PRO: three-dimensional transesophageal echocardiography is a major advance for intraoperative clinical management of patients undergoing cardiac surgery. 
  • Percutaneous Mechanical Circulatory Support Devices in Cardiogenic Shock. 
  • Persistent tricuspid regurgitation and its predictor in adults after percutaneous and isolated surgical closure of secundum atrial septal defect. 
  • Physiology of cardiac tamponade and paradoxical pulse in conscious dogs. 
  • Preload recruitable stroke work relationship in the right ventricle: simultaneous assessment using conductance catheter and sonomicrometry. 
  • Preoperative Echocardiographic Differences and Transplant Outcomes Among Patients Receiving Simultaneous Liver-Kidney Versus Liver Transplant Alone. 
  • Prognostic Impact of Pulmonary Artery Pulsatility Index (PAPi) in Patients With Advanced Heart Failure: Insights From the ESCAPE Trial. 
  • Quantification of aortic regurgitation by real-time 3-dimensional echocardiography in a chronic animal model: computation of aortic regurgitant volume as the difference between left and right ventricular stroke volumes. 
  • Quantitation of the effective right ventricular output in patients with pulmonary atresia and intact ventricular septum after placement of a right ventricular outflow patch and an aorticopulmonary shunt. 
  • RV functional imaging: 3-D echo-derived dynamic geometry and flow field simulations. 
  • RV instantaneous intraventricular diastolic pressure and velocity distributions in normal and volume overload awake dog disease models. 
  • Real-time 3-dimensional echocardiography for quantification of the difference in left ventricular versus right ventricular stroke volume in a chronic animal model study: Improved results using C-scans for quantifying aortic regurgitation. 
  • Real-time three-dimensional echocardiography for determining right ventricular stroke volume in an animal model of chronic right ventricular volume overload. 
  • Real-time, three-dimensional echocardiography: feasibility of dynamic right ventricular volume measurement with saline contrast. 
  • Relationship of right- to left-sided ventricular filling pressures in advanced heart failure: insights from the ESCAPE trial. 
  • Right and left ventricular volume and ejection fraction by tomographic gated blood-pool scintigraphy. 
  • Right ventricular diastolic function in canine models of pressure overload, volume overload, and ischemia. 
  • Right ventricular dysfunction and the incidence of implantable cardioverter-defibrillator therapies. 
  • Right ventricular dysfunction in systemic sclerosis-associated pulmonary arterial hypertension. 
  • Right ventricular injury in young swine: effects of catecholamines on right ventricular function and pulmonary vascular mechanics. 
  • Right ventricular mechanics using a novel comprehensive three-view echocardiographic strain analysis in a normal population. 
  • Right-Sided Cardiac Dysfunction in Heart Failure With Preserved Ejection Fraction and Worsening Renal Function. 
  • Risk score derived from pre-operative data analysis predicts the need for biventricular mechanical circulatory support. 
  • Role of right ventricular and pulmonary functional abnormalities in limiting exercise capacity in adults with congenital heart disease. 
  • Special article: basic perioperative transesophageal echocardiography examination: a consensus statement of the American Society of Echocardiography and the Society of Cardiovascular Anesthesiologists. 
  • Standardized cardiovascular magnetic resonance imaging (CMR) protocols, society for cardiovascular magnetic resonance: board of trustees task force on standardized protocols. 
  • Strength-interval curves in canine myocardium at very short cycle lengths. 
  • Suppression of Tumorigenicity 2 in Heart Failure With Preserved Ejection Fraction. 
  • Survival to Stage II with Ventricular Dysfunction: Secondary Analysis of the Single Ventricle Reconstruction Trial. 
  • The Congenital Heart Surgeon's Society Complete Atrioventricular Septal Defect Cohort: Baseline, Preintervention Echocardiographic Characteristics. 
  • The Prevalence, Correlates, and Impact on Cardiac Mortality of Right Ventricular Dysfunction in Nonischemic Cardiomyopathy. 
  • The clinical implications of cumulative right ventricular pacing in the multicenter automatic defibrillator trial II. 
  • The efficiency of pulmonary blood transport following single lung transplantation. 
  • The forgotten chamber: the importance of the right ventricle. 
  • The impact of a failing right heart in patients supported by intra-aortic balloon counterpulsation. 
  • Tricuspid regurgitation and right ventricular function after mitral valve surgery with or without concomitant tricuspid valve procedure. 
  • Understanding right ventricular dysfunction and functional tricuspid regurgitation accompanying mitral valve disease. 
  • Update on perioperative right heart assessment using transesophageal echocardiography. 
  • Utility of concomitant tricuspid valve procedures for patients undergoing implantation of a continuous-flow left ventricular device. 
  • Utility of tissue Doppler and strain echocardiography in arrhythmogenic right ventricular dysplasia/cardiomyopathy. 
  • Worldwide Experience of a Durable Centrifugal Flow Pump in Pediatric Patients. 
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  Keywords of People

  • Milano, Carmelo Alessio, Professor of Surgery, Surgery, Cardiovascular and Thoracic Surgery