title: Right ventricular function in patients treated with inhaled nitric oxide after cardiac surgery for congenital heart disease in newborns and children.
abstract: Measurement of right ventricular (RV) function is essential for complete assessment of the effects of inhaled nitric oxide in the postoperative cardiac patient; nitric oxide therapy can result in a decrease in pulmonary vascular resistance and improved echocardiographic RV ejection fraction without necessarily inducing a significant change in pulmonary artery pressure.
authors.affiliation: Department of Congenital Heart Disease, German Heart Center, Berlin.
authors.forename: I
authors.initials: I
authors.lastname: Schulze-Neick
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Bultmann
authors.forename: H
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Werner
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Gamillscheg
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Vogel
authors.forename: F
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Berger
authors.forename: R
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Rossaint
authors.forename: R
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Hetzer
authors.forename: P E
authors.initials: PE
authors.lastname: Lange
mesh_terms: D002648:Child; D002675:Child, Preschool; D004452:Echocardiography; D006330:Heart Defects, Congenital / Q000601:surgery*; D006439:Hemodynamics; D006801:Humans; D007223:Infant; D009569:Nitric Oxide / Q000627:therapeutic use*; D011184:Postoperative Period; D011659:Pulmonary Gas Exchange; D014655:Vascular Resistance; D016278:Ventricular Function, Right
chemical_list: D009569:Nitric Oxide