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Echocardiography and Left Ventricular Function on Recovery from Anaesthesia in Patients with Coronary Artery Disease
Author(s) -
Touze M.D.,
Pinaud M.,
Rozo L.,
Souron R.,
Nicolas F.
Publication year - 1983
Publication title -
acta anaesthesiologica scandinavica
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.738
H-Index - 107
eISSN - 1399-6576
pISSN - 0001-5172
DOI - 10.1111/j.1399-6576.1983.tb01925.x
Subject(s) - medicine , cardiology , coronary artery disease , hemodynamics , artery , general anaesthesia , left coronary artery , ventricular function , anesthesia
Eight patients with coronary artery disease and eight age‐matched patients without coronary artery‐disease undergoing noncardiac surgery were submitted to M‐mode echocardiography and haemodynamic measurements. In the patients with coronary artery disease, but not in the controls, recovery from anaesthesia was associated with echocardiographic and haemodynamic changes suggestive of impaired cardiac pump function. This impairment seems to result from an imbalance between myocardial oxygen availability and demand in patients with coronary artery disease.