Lowering Pulmonary Wedge Pressure after Heart Transplant: Pulmonary Compliance and Resistance Effect

BACKGROUND: Right ventricular (RV) afterload is an important risk factor for post-heart transplantation (HTx) mortality, and it results from the interaction between pulmonary vascular resistance (PVR) and pulmonary compliance (CPA). Their product, the RC time, is believed to be constant. An exceptio...

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Published in:Arq Bras Cardiol
Main Authors: Moreira, Nádia, Baptista, Rui, Costa, Susana, Franco, Fátima, Pêgo, Mariano, Antunes, Manuel
Format: Artigo
Language:Inglês
Published: Sociedade Brasileira de Cardiologia 2015
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Online Access:https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4592178/
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26247246
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.govhttp://dx.doi.org/10.5935/abc.20150083
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