title: Lung function and cardiac surgery.
abstract: In a series of 145 patients submitted to cardiac surgery, lung function data were correlated with the kind of heart disease, mitral or oartic or coronary stenosis; the post-operative evolution was evaluated. Patients with valvular diseases (VD) have a significant lower transfer capacity (TL) than coronary patients; mitral VD show a lower forced vital capacity (FVC) than aortic VD. All the patients present an important restrictive pattern in the early post-operative period. The long-term follow-up (greater than 6 months) objectivates the highly significant decrease of FVC and FEV1 in all categories of patients, while the total lung capacity remains low only in aortic VD. The transfer coefficient (TL/VA) improves significantly after mitral valve replacement, but it does not change in the other cases.
authors.affiliation: Service de Pneumologie, Cliniques de l'Université Catholique de Louvain à Mont-Godinne, Yvoir, Belgium.
authors.forename: P
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Dubois
authors.forename: G
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Dubois
authors.forename: J P
authors.initials: JP
authors.lastname: Delwiche
authors.forename: J C
authors.initials: JC
authors.lastname: Schoevaerdts
authors.forename: R
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Kremer
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D001021:Aortic Valve / Q000601:surgery*; D001026:Coronary Artery Bypass; D003327:Coronary Disease / Q000503:physiopathology* / Q000601:surgery; D005260:Female; D006349:Heart Valve Diseases / Q000503:physiopathology / Q000601:surgery; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D008943:Mitral Valve / Q000601:surgery*; D011183:Postoperative Complications / Q000503:physiopathology*; D011446:Prospective Studies; D015656:Respiratory Mechanics / Q000502:physiology*