The effects of two lung ventilation, one lung ventilation and alveolar lavage on right ventricular mechanics in a patient have been observed using transoesophageal echocardiography (TOE). Alveolar lavage resulted in additional stresses to those of one lung ventilation (OLV) and the point when these were noted to be resulting in right ventricular changes was used as the signal to terminate the f...

acute inferior myocardial infarction (mi) frequently involves the right ventricle (rv).1-3 we assessed the prognostic impact of rv myocardial involvement in patients with inferior mi. one hundred seventy patients were admitted to the cardiac care unit of madani heart hospital (tabriz-iran) with the diagnosis of inferior mi with (group1) or without (group2) the simultaneous involvement of rv dur...

a 47 year-old female died after mitral valve replacement. post-cardiopulmonary bypass right ventricle was not able to pump despite good left ventricular contractility. at microscopic examination, diffuse right ventricular fatty infiltration was found. we found no previous report of this pathology in patients with mitral stenosis