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The Journal of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery, Vol 99, 725-734, Copyright © 1990 by The American Association for Thoracic Surgery and The Western Thoracic Surgical Association

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Effects of left heart bypass on right ventricular performance. Evaluation of the right ventricular end-systolic and end-diastolic pressure-volume relation in the in situ normal canine heart

K Fukamachi, T Asou, Y Nakamura, Y Toshima, M Oe, A Mitani, M Sakamoto, K Kishizaki, K Sunagawa and K Tokunaga
Division of Cardiovascular Surgery and Cardiology, Faculty of Medicine, Kyushu University, Fukuoka, Japan.

Although left heart bypass has gained popularity as a powerful technique to assist the severely failed left heart, apparent right heart failure has often developed during the bypass procedure. We investigated whether the coexisting right heart failure is attributable to the left heart bypass in 16 open-chest dogs. We evaluated the effects of left heart bypass on the right ventricular systolic properties by the slope of the end-systolic pressure-volume relation and its effects on the diastolic properties by chamber compliance. Overall right ventricular performance was assessed by the end-diastolic pressure versus cardiac output relationship. The left heart bypass decreased the slope slightly when the assisted flow ratio exceeded 75% (-14% +/- 8% at the assisted flow ratio of 100%, p less than 0.02) and thus had a deleterious influence on right ventricular performance. The left heart bypass, on the other hand, had a counteracting beneficial influence on right ventricular performance through the increase in chamber compliance (38% +/- 5%, p less than 0.01) and the decrease in pulmonary arterial input resistance (-15% +/- 12%, p less than 0.01). The net effect of the left heart bypass was the increase in cardiac output (20% +/- 2%, p less than 0.05) for any given right ventricular end-diastolic pressure. We conclude that in normal hearts the left heart bypass augments right ventricular performance. We ascribe these beneficial effects to diastolic ventricular interdependence and afterload unloading.

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