Abstract
Increased pulmonary vascular pressure and decreased right-ventricular performance may occur following pneumonectomy. Inhaled nitric oxide decreases right-ventricular afterload and improves cardiac index by selectively decreasing pulmonary vascular resistance without causing systemic hypotension. We report the use of inhaled nitric oxide in a patient with acute right-ventricular dysfunction after extrapleural pneumonectomy.
- pulmonary vascular pressure
- ventricle
- pneumonectomy
- inhaled nitric oxide
- afterload
- cardiac index
- pulmonary vascular resistance
- hypotension
Footnotes
- Correspondence: Mark T Keegan MRCPI, Department of Anesthesiology, Mayo Clinic College of Medicine, Charlton 1145, 200 First Street SW, Rochester MN 55095. E-mail: keegan.mark{at}mayo.edu.
- Copyright © 2006 by Daedalus Enterprises Inc.
