Awake Heart Valve Surgery in a Patient With Severe Pulmonary Disease

Cardiac operations may be performed in a conscious, spontaneously breathing patient, but it is difficult to justify an awake technique in patients undergoing coronary artery procedures with low operative risk. We describe an elderly patient with severe chronic obstructive pulmonary disease in whom g...

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Veröffentlicht in:	The Annals of thoracic surgery 2008-07, Vol.86 (1), p.293-295
Hauptverfasser:	Knapik, Piotr, MD, PhD, Przybylski, Roman, MD, Nadziakiewicz, Paweł, MD, Zembala, Marian, MD, PhD
Format:	Artikel
Sprache:	eng
Schlagworte:	Aged Anesthesia, Epidural - methods Anesthesia, General Anesthesia. Intensive care medicine. Transfusions. Cell therapy and gene therapy Aortic Valve - physiopathology Aortic Valve - surgery Biological and medical sciences Cardiology. Vascular system Cardiothoracic Surgery Contraindications Follow-Up Studies Heart Valve Diseases - complications Heart Valve Diseases - diagnosis Heart Valve Diseases - surgery Heart Valve Prosthesis Implantation - methods Humans Hypertension, Pulmonary - complications Hypertension, Pulmonary - diagnosis Male Medical sciences Mitral Valve - physiopathology Mitral Valve - surgery Pneumology Pulmonary Disease, Chronic Obstructive - complications Pulmonary Disease, Chronic Obstructive - diagnosis Risk Assessment Severity of Illness Index Surgery Treatment Outcome
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