Pulmonary hypertension during beating heart coronary surgery: intermittent inferior vena cava snaring.
Pulmonary hypertension during beating heart coronary artery bypass grafting may compromise the possibility of safely completing the procedure off-pump. To obviate such a problem, we describe a simple technique by which the inferior vena cava is progressively snared to decrease pulmonary pressure.
Dagenais
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Department of Surgery, Montreal Heart Institute, Quebec, Canada.
Cartier
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D001794:Blood Pressure; D002315:Cardiopulmonary Bypass; D001026:Coronary Artery Bypass / Q000009:adverse effects* / Q000379:methods; D006801:Humans; D006976:Hypertension, Pulmonary / Q000209:etiology* / Q000503:physiopathology; D011652:Pulmonary Circulation; D014682:Vena Cava, Inferior / Q000502:physiology