Lung function and cardiac surgery.
(1991) Acta Cardiologica : an international journal of cardiology — Vol. 46, n° 4, p. 439-451 (1991)
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- In a series of 145 patients submitted to cardiac surgery, lung function data were correlated with the kind of heart disease, mitral or oartic or coronary stenosis; the post-operative evolution was evaluated. Patients with valvular diseases (VD) have a significant lower transfer capacity (TL) than coronary patients; mitral VD show a lower forced vital capacity (FVC) than aortic VD. All the patients present an important restrictive pattern in the early post-operative period. The long-term follow-up (greater than 6 months) objectivates the highly significant decrease of FVC and FEV1 in all categories of patients, while the total lung capacity remains low only in aortic VD. The transfer coefficient (TL/VA) improves significantly after mitral valve replacement, but it does not change in the other cases.
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Dubois, P., Dubois, G., Delwiche, J. P., Schoevaerdts, J.-C., & Kremer, R. (1991). Lung function and cardiac surgery. Acta Cardiologica : an international journal of cardiology, 46(4), 439-451. https://hdl.handle.net/2078.5/60111 (Original work published 1991)