Management of patients with cor pulmonale—Acute and chronic
| Autor: | John W. Vance |
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| Rok vydání: | 1967 |
| Předmět: |
medicine.medical_specialty
Lung Heart disease business.industry Disease Acute cor pulmonale medicine.disease Cardiovascular physiology Pulmonary heart disease medicine.anatomical_structure Pulmonary Heart Disease Ventricle Internal medicine medicine Cardiology Humans Respiratory system Pulmonary Embolism Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine Intensive care medicine business |
| Zdroj: | Progress in Cardiovascular Diseases. 9:470-487 |
| ISSN: | 0033-0620 |
| DOI: | 10.1016/s0033-0620(67)80019-7 |
| Popis: | p ROBABLY no area of cardiovascular physiology has lent itself to study more readily than that of the lungs and their circulation. Greater understanding of the abnormal physiology of both the heart and lungs has enabled new approaches to the management of patients with pulmonary heart disease. Cot pulmonale--hypertrophy or dilatation of the right ventricle secondary to disease of the lung, pulmonary circulation, or respiratory apparatus--is customarily divided into 2 major forms: acute and chronic. 1-9 As the latter form is the more prevalent and its early recognition more difficult, emphasis in this discussion will be on chronic cot pulmonale. Cor pulmonale, acute or chronic, can be adequately treated only when its causes are thoroughly understoood and can be determined. It is the primary pathosis, not the secondary heart disease, that must be treated. Primarily, of course, the mechanisms underlying the causative factors must be well understood. ACUTE COR PULMONALE |
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