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Review

Volume 7, Number 6, December 2016, pages 185-195

Postoperative Right Ventricular Failure in Cardiac Surgery

Figures

Figure 1.
Figure 1. Physiopathology of right ventricular failure. FRV: function right ventricle; PVR: pulmonary vascular resistance. Taken and adapted from [16].
Figure 2.
Figure 2. Physiopathology of the right ventricle after surgery. Taken and adapted from [17].
Figure 3.
Figure 3. Features based in the Frank-Starling law related with acute right ventricular failure at post-cardiac surgery. Figure taken and adapted from [13].
Figure 4.
Figure 4. Management algorithm proposed in patients with postoperative right ventricular dysfunction.