title: [Interrelationship between functional state of the right ventricle and severity of heart failure in patients with ischemic heart disease and depressed left ventricular function].
abstract: Dobutamine Doppler echocardiography was carried out in 56 patients (n=56) with ischemic heart disease and depressed left ventricular function (left ventricular ejection fraction <40%) and chronic heart failure. Clinical signs of heart failure were moderate (NYHA class I-II) in 34 and severe (NYHA class III-IV) in 22 patients. Patients with moderate and severe clinical heart failure had similar degree of left ventricular myocardium impairment however those with severe symptoms had more pronounced right ventricular (RV) dysfunction (greater suppression of global and local RV contractility, greater percentage of irreversibly dysfunctional RV myocardium, lower RV contractile response to dobutamine infusion, more pronounced disturbances of RV diastolic filling). Dependence of RV pump function on pulmonary artery pressure was more evident in patients with severe clinical heart failure and marked dysfunction of RV myocardium than in patients with moderate symptoms and moderate RV myocardial dysfunction.
authors.forename: N S
authors.initials: NS
authors.lastname: Buslenko
authors.forename: Iu I
authors.initials: IuI
authors.lastname: Buziashvili
authors.forename: I V
authors.initials: IV
authors.lastname: Koksheneva
authors.forename: E U
authors.initials: EU
authors.lastname: Asymbekova
authors.forename: O M
authors.initials: OM
authors.lastname: Sherstiannikova
mesh_terms: D001794:Blood Pressure / Q000502:physiology; D003971:Diastole; D015150:Echocardiography, Doppler; D025401:Echocardiography, Stress; D006333:Heart Failure / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000503:physiopathology*; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D009200:Myocardial Contraction; D017202:Myocardial Ischemia / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000503:physiopathology*; D011651:Pulmonary Artery / Q000503:physiopathology; D018487:Ventricular Dysfunction, Left / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000503:physiopathology*; D018497:Ventricular Dysfunction, Right / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000503:physiopathology*