Differential changes in regional right ventricular function before and after a bilateral lung transplantation: an ultrasonic strain and strain rate study.
The evaluation of regional right ventricular function by ultrasound remains a challenge. This case report demonstrates the potential value of the new cardiac deformation indices, strain and strain rate imaging, in determining the differing regional abnormalities in longitudinal right ventricular function before and after bilateral lung transplantation. These indices were measured in a patient with severe right ventricular dysfunction as a result of primary pulmonary hypertension.
University Hospital Gasthuisberg, Leuven, Belgium.
Virginija
V
Dambrauskaite
Lieven
L
Herbots
Piet
P
Claus
Geert
G
Verleden
Dirk
D
Van Raemdonck
Marion
M
Delcroix
George R
GR
Sutherland
D000328:Adult; D018618:Echocardiography, Doppler, Color; D006352:Heart Ventricles / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging*; D006801:Humans; D006976:Hypertension, Pulmonary / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000503:physiopathology / Q000601:surgery; D017380:Hypertrophy, Right Ventricular / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000503:physiopathology; D016040:Lung Transplantation / Q000502:physiology*; D008297:Male; D011184:Postoperative Period; D020127:Recovery of Function / Q000502:physiology*; D016278:Ventricular Function, Right / Q000502:physiology*