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The Journal of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery, Vol 94, 95-103, Copyright © 1987 by The American Association for Thoracic Surgery and The Western Thoracic Surgical Association

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Circulatory support for right ventricular dysfunction

GK Jett, AL Picone and RE Clark

New modes of circulatory support for right ventricular dysfunction have recently been described. The present study compared the effectiveness of pulmonary artery balloon counterpulsation with a right ventricular assist device for support of surgically induced right ventricular dysfunction. Right ventricular hypertrophy was created in 16 neonatal lambs by pulmonary artery banding. Right ventricular dysfunction was produced in all animals by performing a right ventriculotomy and maintaining the pulmonary artery band. Four unassisted animals developed severe acute right heart failure and died. Six sheep had pulmonary artery balloon counterpulsation with a Dacron graft anastomosed to the proximal pulmonary artery as a reservoir for a 40 ml intra-aortic balloon after the onset of heart failure. The remaining six sheep had a pneumatically activated ventricular assist device inserted between the proximal pulmonary artery and the right ventricular apex. Periods of circulatory support with the balloon pump and the assist device on and off were compared. Decreases in right atrial pressure were observed with both balloon counterpulsation and right ventricular assistance: 14 +/- 1 to 11 +/- 1 mm Hg, p less than 0.0001, versus 19 +/- 2 to 12 +/- 2 mm Hg, p less than 0.0002, respectively. Cardiac output increased with both balloon counterpulsation and ventricular assistance: 1.45 +/- 0.16 to 2.03 +/- 0.13 L/min, p less than 0.001, versus 0.72 +/- 0.15 to 2.24 +/- 0.23 L/min, p less than 0.0002, respectively. Aortic systolic pressure increased in both support groups: 78 +/- 7 to 99 +/- 6 mm Hg, p less than 0.0004, versus 53 +/- 9 to 85 +/- 9 mm Hg, p less than 0.0001, respectively. Ventricular assistance produced greater changes in the right atrial pressure (39% +/- 6% versus 17% +/- 3%, p less than 0.01), cardiac output (153% +/- 39% versus 54% +/- 11%, p less than 0.05), and aortic systolic pressure (85% +/- 13% versus 39% +/- 9%, p less than 0.01). The insertion of a right ventricular assist device caused a significant increment in right ventricular dysfunction. These data, obtained with the devices in place but not operating, showed significantly increased right atrial and right ventricular end- diastolic pressures and approximately 50% less cardiac output than with the pulmonary artery balloon counterpulsation system. The results demonstrate that both modes of circulatory support were effective in reversing surgically induced right ventricular failure.(ABSTRACT TRUNCATED AT 400 WORDS)

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