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Cohn, J. N., Tristani, F. E., & Khatri, I. M. (1969). Studies in clinical shock and hypotension: VI. Relationship between left and right ventricular function. The Journal of clinical investigation, 48(11), 2008-18. https://doi.org/10.1172/JCI106166
Cohn, J N, et al. "Studies in clinical shock and hypotension: VI. Relationship between left and right ventricular function." The Journal of clinical investigation vol. 48,11 (1969): 2008-18. doi: https://doi.org/10.1172/JCI106166
Cohn JN, Tristani FE, Khatri IM. Studies in clinical shock and hypotension: VI. Relationship between left and right ventricular function. J Clin Invest. 1969 Nov;48(11):2008-18. doi: 10.1172/JCI106166. PMID: 16695956; PMCID: PMC297453.
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J Clin Invest. 1969 Nov;48(11):2008-18. doi: 10.1172/JCI106166.

Studies in clinical shock and hypotension: VI. Relationship between left and right ventricular function.

The Journal of clinical investigation

J N Cohn, F E Tristani, I M Khatri

Affiliations

  1. Hypertension and Clinical Hemodynamics Section, Veterans Administration Hospital, Washington, D. C. 20422.

PMID: 16695956 PMCID: PMC297453 DOI: 10.1172/JCI106166

Abstract

Left ventricular end diastolic (LVEDP) and mean right atrial (RAP) pressures were recorded simultaneously in 30 patients with shock (14 acute myocardial infarction, 10 acute pulmonary embolism or severe bronchopulmonary disease, and 6 sepsis). Myocardial infarction was characterized by a predominant increase in LVEDP, pulmonary disease by a predominant increase in RAP, and sepsis by a normal relationship between LVEDP and RAP. In all three groups a significant positive correlation was noted between RAP and LVEDP, with the regression line in cor pulmonale deviated significantly toward the RAP axis and the regression line in myocardial infarction exhibiting a zero RAP intercept at an elevated LVEDP.Low cardiac outputs with elevated LVEDP in myocardial infarction indicated severe left ventricular failure. Low outputs with elevated RAP in cor pulmonale were consistent with right ventricular overload. Although cardiac outputs often were normal in sepsis, low outputs with elevated cardiac filling pressures in some patients were consistent with a hemodynamic or humoral-induced generalized depression of cardiac performance.Vasoconstrictor and inotropic drugs often produced a functional disparity between the two ventricles, with the gradient between LVEDP and RAP increasing, apparently because of an increase in left ventricular work or an inadequacy of left ventricular oxygen delivery. Acute plasma volume expansion with dextran in patients with pulmonary vascular disease resulted in a somewhat more rapid rise in RAP than in LVEDP. In septic and myocardial infarction shock, however, LVEDP and RAP usually rose proportionally, with the absolute rise of LVEDP surpassing that of RAP. Although the absolute level of the central venous pressure thus may not be a reliable indicator of left ventricular function in shock, changes in venous pressure during acute plasma volume expansion should serve as a fairly safe guide to changes in LVEDP.

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