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Anesthesia and analgesia · Sep 2018
Description of a Novel Set-Up for Functional Echocardiographic Assessment of Left Ventricular Performance During Ex Vivo Heart Perfusion.
- Giulia Maria Ruggeri, Joshua Qua Hiansen, Emanuele Pivetta, Azad Mashari, Flavia Ballocca, Pinto Ribeiro Roberto Vanin RV Division of Cardiovascular Surgery, Toronto General Hospital, University Health Network, Toronto, Ontario, Canada., Liming Xin, Mitesh Badiwala, Babita Thampinathan, and Massimiliano Meineri.
- From the Department of Anesthesia and Pain Management, Toronto General Hospital, University Health Network, Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
- Anesth. Analg. 2018 Sep 1; 127 (3): e36-e39.
AbstractEx vivo heart perfusion (EVHP) is a new technology aimed at decreasing cold ischemia time and evaluating cardiac function before transplanting a donor heart. In an experimental EVHP swine model, we tested a 3D-printed custom-made set-up to perform surface echocardiography on an isolated beating heart during left ventricular loading. The views obtained at any time point were equivalent to standard transesophageal and transthoracic views. A decrease in left ventricular function during EVHP was observed in all experiments.
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