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Ann Thorac Surg 2003;75:1208
© 2003 The Society of Thoracic Surgeons

Invited commentary

Arthur Wallace, MD, PhD, Mark Ratcliffe, MD

VAMC Surgery 112D, San Francisco Veterans Affairs Medical Center, 4150 Clement Street, San Francisco, CA 94121, USA

e-mail: mark.ratcliffe@med.va.gov

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In their manuscript, Tanoue and colleagues attempted to calculate arterial elastance (EA), ventricular elastance at end-systole (EES), stroke work (SW), and the pressure volume area (PVA) in patients before and after the Dor procedure. They found that EA was not changed but EES improved, the EA/EES ratio fell from 2.9 to 1.6, and left ventricular (LV) efficiency (SW/PVA) increased.

An improvement in LV efficiency (output work/total energy . . . [Full Text of this Article]






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