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Ann Thorac Surg 2006;82:995
© 2006 The Society of Thoracic Surgeons

Original article: Cardiovascular

Invited commentary

Andrew J. Parry, MA, BM

Paediatric Cardiac Surgery, Bristol Royal Hospital for Children, Upper Maudlin St, Bristol BS2 8BJ, United Kingdom

(Email: andrew.parry@ubht.swest.nhs.uk).

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The contribution of the right ventricle to maintaining cardiac output has long been underestimated compared with the left. Historically, this has been truer of adult clinicians, although with increasing experience of transplantation and left ventricular assist devices, the importance of the right ventricle is being better appreciated. For those attending patients with congenital heart lesions this is less true, however. It has long been observed that patients who have had chronic volume loading of the right ventricle often require a higher central venous pressure than expected after bypass to maintain cardiac . . . [Full Text of this Article]


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