Echocardiography and left ventricular function on recovery from anaesthesia in patients with coronary artery disease.
Eight patients with coronary artery disease and eight age-matched patients without coronary artery disease undergoing noncardiac surgery were submitted to M-mode echocardiography and haemodynamic measurements. In the patients with coronary artery disease, but not in the controls, recovery from anaesthesia was associated with echocardiographic and haemodynamic changes suggestive of impaired cardiac pump function. This impairment seems to result from an imbalance between myocardial oxygen availability and demand in patients with coronary artery disease.
D000137:Acid-Base Imbalance; D000368:Aged; D000768:Anesthesia, General; D002245:Carbon Dioxide / Q000097:blood; D006328:Cardiac Catheterization; D003327:Coronary Disease / Q000503:physiopathology*; D004452:Echocardiography; D006321:Heart / Q000503:physiopathology*; D006439:Hemodynamics / Q000187:drug effects; D006801:Humans; D006863:Hydrogen-Ion Concentration; D008875:Middle Aged; D010100:Oxygen / Q000097:blood; D013997:Time Factors
D002245:Carbon Dioxide; D010100:Oxygen