Dubois, Philippe
[UCL]
Dubois, G
Delwiche, J. P.
Schoevaerdts, Jean-Claude
[UCL]
Kremer, René
[UCL]
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.
Bibliographic reference |
Dubois, Philippe ; Dubois, G ; Delwiche, J. P. ; Schoevaerdts, Jean-Claude ; Kremer, René. Lung function and cardiac surgery.. In: Acta cardiologica, Vol. 46, no. 4, p. 439-51 (1991) |
Permanent URL |
http://hdl.handle.net/2078.1/32488 |