Should Surveillance Right Heart Catheterization Be Performed in Patients Listed for Heart Transplantation?

[Should biatrial heart transplantation still be performed?: A Meta-analysis].

The outcomes of total and bicaval heart transplantation techniques are better than those of the biatrial technique; however, the latter is still considered the gold-standard. The objective of this study was to determine whether the total and bicaval heart transplantation techniques are, in fact, better than the biatrial technique. A systematic review with meta-analysis was carried out. Studies ...

Role of right heart catheterization.

especially in medical patients with respiratory failure. Because of these data limitations, we do not believe that undue reliance on formulas and guidelines alone will prevent nutritional complications. Our case report illustrated the problem ofweaning difficulties due to nutritionally associated hypercapnia in a patient population not commonly thought to be susceptible to this problem. We feel...

Right from the heart: when should myocardial biopsy be performed for suspected arrhythmogenic right ventricular cardiomyopathy/dysplasia?

A host of uncommon but clinically important myocardial diseases including arrhythmogenic right ventricular cardiomyopathy/dysplasia (ARVC/D) have unique prognoses and treatments and should be strongly suspected in their characteristic clinical scenarios. ARVC/D is an inherited or sporatic form of predominantly right ventricular cardiomyopathy characterized by a progressive loss of myocytes that...

How Should Cancer Surveillance in Primary Sclerosing Cholangitis Be Performed?

BACKGROUND Primary sclerosing cholangitis (PSC) is a chronic inflammatory disease affecting the intra- and extrahepatic bile duct system that can ultimately cause liver cirrhosis. Apart from the risk of progression to end-stage liver disease the prognosis of PSC is primarily determined by the risk to develop hepatobiliary or extrahepatic malignancies. A reasonable surveillance strategy for PSC ...

Does right heart catheterization prevent perioperative complications?