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Feasibility of conductance catheter-derived pressure–volume loops to investigate ventricular mechanics in shunted single ventricles

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  25 January 2013

Ryan J. Butts
Affiliation:
Department of Pediatrics, Division of Cardiology, Medical University of South Carolina, Charleston, South Carolina, United States of America
Tain-Yen Hsia
Affiliation:
Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery, Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children, London, United Kingdom
G. Hamilton Baker*
Affiliation:
Department of Pediatrics, Division of Cardiology, Medical University of South Carolina, Charleston, South Carolina, United States of America
*
Correspondence to: Dr G. Hamilton Baker, MD, Department of Pediatrics, Division of Cardiology, Medical University of South Carolina, 165 Ashley Avenue, Charleston, South Carolina 29425, United States of America. Tel: +1 843 792 3286; Fax: +1 843 792 3284; E-mail: baker@musc.edu

Abstract

We present pressure–volume loops obtained from two patients with single-ventricle physiology, one with a modified Blalock–Taussig shunt and one with a right ventricle-to-pulmonary artery shunt. The dissimilarities in pressure–volume loop contour and related indices highlight potentially important differences in ventricular mechanics between the shunt types.

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Brief Reports
Copyright
Copyright © Cambridge University Press 2013 

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