• Journal of Chest Surgery
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• 제25권7호
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• pp.736-738
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• 1992

We report the successful use of Nifedipine in the treatment of acute pulmonary hypertension in an young child after a cardiac operation. This patient had undergone patch closure of large ventricular septal defect. She had signs of severe pulmonary artery hypertension unresponsive to hyperventilation, oxygenation, sedation, and a myriad of vas-oactive drugs. Nifedipine, 0.3mg /kg every 4 hours, effectively treated her pulmonary artery hypertension and allowed for a smooth postoperative course and positive outcome. The drug lowered systemic diastolic pressure, but not systolic pressure.

• Tuberculosis and Respiratory Diseases
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• 제42권6호
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• pp.913-922
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• 1995

연구배경: 혈류의 누가현상이 일어나는 폐혈관계의 압력을 유효유출압($P_I$), 심박출량의 변화분에 대한 폐동맥압의 변화분을 폐혈관저항증분(IR)이라고 정의할때에 $P_I$ 및 IR과 폐혈관저항을 비교해보면 폐혈관저항의 문제점이 발견된다. 즉 폐혈관상이 감소하는 폐색전증에서는 이론상 IR이 주로 증가해야 하는데, 여러 연구에 의하여 상반된 결과가 보고되어있고 폐혈관저항과 $P_I$, IR간에는 상위점이 존재하는 것이 알려져 왔다. 이에 따라 본 연구에서는 폐혈관저항을 폐혈관계의 유효유출압($P_I$)과 폐혈관저항증분(IR)으로 세분할때 폐색전증의 유발 및 치료시 아들이 어떻게 변화하는가를 관찰하여 이러한 새로운 지표들의 의미와 일반적으로 사용되는 폐혈관저항과의 차이점을 알아보고자 하였다. 방법: 실험전에 동정맥루를 만든후 10~15분 간격으로 조직하여, 동정맥루가 모두 폐쇄된 상태, 하나의 동정맥루가 개방된 상태, 그리고 두개의 동정맥루가 모두 개방된 상태의 3가지 경우로 심박출량올 변화시키면서 방사성동위원소로 표지된 자가혈병으로 대량의 폐색전증을 유발시킨후의 평균폐동맥압을 측정하여 폐혈관계의 유효유출압과 폐혈관저항증분을 계산하였다. 이때 대조군은 특이 치료를 하지않고, 제 1 치료군은 15분 동안, 제 2치료군은 3시간에 걸쳐서 재조합형의 조직형 플라스미노겐 활성체를 체중당 1mg씩 정맥주입하면서 유효유출압과 폐혈관저항증분의 변화양상을 관찰하였다. 곁과: 1) 폐혈관저항은 폐동맥압의 변화양상과 유사하게 변화했는데, 세군 모두 폐혈관저항이 유의하게 증가하였고, 제 1 치료군 및 제 2 치료군에서는 치료후 폐혈관저항이 계속 감소하는 경향을 보였는데, 제 1 치료군의 감소속도가 제 2 치료군보다 유의하게 빨랐다. 2) 최소자승법으로 산출한 심박출량과 폐동맥압과의 직선관계는 절편($P_I$) 및 기울기(IR)가 유의하였다. 3) $P_I$(폐혈관계의 유효유출압)는 폐혈관저항과 동일한 양상으로 변화한 반면에, 이론상 폐혈관저항과 가까운 IR(폐혈관저항증분)에서는 세군간의 유의한 차이나 조직형 플라스미노겐 활성체 투여후의 의미있는 변화는 거의 없었다. 결론: 폐색전증에서는 폐혈관계의 실제저항을 의미하는 폐혈관저항증분과 폐색전증에 대한 이차적 혈관 수축때문에 생기는 폐혈관계의 유효유출압의 변화가 동시에 반영된다고 할 수 있겠다.

• Journal of Chest Surgery
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• 제17권3호
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• pp.339-345
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• 1984

Thirty four patients with a ventricular septal defect, aged 2 months to 24 years [median 2.33 years], had lung biopsies during open heart procedures to assess the degree of pulmonary vascular disease. The patients were divided into two groups according to their age; group 1 - under 2 years of age [15 patients], and group 2- over 2 years of age [19 patients]. The, pathologic change of the pulmonary arterioles was correlated with pre-operative hemodynamic data in 34 patients. There was no significant correlation between the severity of pulmonary vascular disease according to Heath-Edwards classification and the patients age [X2=1.8381, P=0.1751 ]. There was a significant correlation between degree of medial wall thickness and arteriolar diameter and the level of preoperative peak pulmonary artery pressure and peak systemic artery pressure [Pp/Ps]. Also, there was a good correlation between the preoperative pulmonary vascular resistance and systemic vascular resistance [Rp/Rs]. There was no significant correlation between wall thickness and Pp/Ps, and Rp/Rs below the age of 2 years. We conclude that, in patients over 2 years of age, there was a significant correlation between the medial wall thickness of the pulmonary arteriole and elevation of Pp/Ps and Rp/Rs. This is not true in patients under 2 years of age.

• 한국임상수의학회지
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• 제37권4호
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• pp.185-190
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• 2020

This retrospective, echocardiographic study using 144 dogs with clear systolic tricuspid regurgitation on Doppler echocardiography was performed to determine the diagnostic value of the systolic tricuspid regurgitation velocity/pulmonary artery flow velocity time integral to predict the Doppler estimates of dogs with tricuspid regurgitation pressure gradient compared with other cardiac indices of pulmonary hypertension, and to investigate a cutoff value to select patients with a potentially poor outcome. The systolic tricuspid regurgitation velocity/pulmonary artery flow velocity time integral increased significantly as the severity of pulmonary hypertension increased and had a correlation coefficient that was analogous to those of other conventional cardiac indices. A cutoff value greater 1.65 provided the best-balanced sensitivity (84%) and specificity (80%) in determining patients with a poor prognosis. In conclusion, the systolic tricuspid regurgitation velocity/pulmonary artery flow velocity time integral is readily obtained using routine echocardiography and could provide a non-invasive, novel, and supplementary index for evaluating dogs with pulmonary hypertension as useful prognostic criteria, particularly in those with advanced pulmonary hypertension.

• Journal of Chest Surgery
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• 제15권1호
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• pp.61-66
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• 1982

The present study was performed to evaluate hemodynamic effects on the pericardial patch graft for stenosis of right ventricle outflow tract in 19 patients of tetralogy of Fallot. The stenosis of right ventricle outflow tract was associated with or without pulmonary annular nar-rowing, pulmonary valvular stenosis, and hypoplastic narrowing of pulmonary artery. Total correction of tetralogy of Fallot was performed under cardiopulmonary bypass with moderate hypothermia and cardioplegic cardiac arrest. Ventricular septal defects were closed with Teflon patch graft. The chamber pressures in the heart were measured before and after a total correction of tetralogy of Fallot. The data of pressure measurement and the results of postoperative observation of pericardial patch were as followings: 1. Systolic and diastolic pressure of right ventricle was decreased after operation from $96.0{\pm}14.7/10.0{\pm}14.4mmHg$ to $61.0{\pm}13.1/8.0{\pm}9.3mmHg$. 2. Systolic and diastolic pressure of pulmonary artery was increased after operation from $18.0{\pm}5.6/10.0{\pm}5.5mmHg$ to $31.0{\pm}10.7/14.0{\pm}4.9mmHg$. 3. Preoperative pressure gradient between right ventricle and pulmonary artery was decreased immediately after operation from 78.0mmHg to 30.0mmHg. 4. It was observed that excellent widening effects of right ventricle outflow tract was resulted from pericardial patch graft. 5. No postoperative bleeding from pericardial patch graft was observed. 6. Aneurysm formation of pericardial patch was not be observed during 1 to 6 years postoperative periods.

• 대한한의학회지
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• 제23권3호
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• pp.63-73
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• 2002

Objective : This study aimed to investigate the effects Samyoo-tang Extract (SE) on the vascular systems, including changes in blood pressure and regional cerebral blood flow (rCBF), of male Sprague-Dawley rats. Methods : The changes in rCBF were determined by Laser-Doppler flowmetry through the opened cranial method and norepinephrine (NE)-induced blood vessel contractions were determined by physiograph in the pulmonary artery of isolated rabbits. Results and Conclusion : 1. Contractions evoked by NE ($ED_{50}$) were inhibited significantly by SE in the pulmonary artery. 2. SE inhibited the relaxation of NE induced contractions pretreated with propranolol. 3. SE did not inhibit the relaxation of NE induced contractions pretreated with ODQ and L-NNA. 4. Blood pressure was not affected by SE in rats. 5. rCBF was increased by SE in a dose-dependent manner. 6. Pretreatment with propranolol was increased by SE in a dose-dependent manner in blond pressure. 7. Pretreatment with methylene blue, ODQ and L-NNA did not inhibit SE induced increased in rCBF. These results indicate that SE can relax NE-induced contraction of rabbit blood vessels and increased the changes of rCBF in rats, that relate to the sympathetic nerve system.

• Archives of Pharmacal Research
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• 제20권5호
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• pp.389-395
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• 1997

We investigated the interaction between nitric oxide and the renin angiotensin system in regulating isolated pulmonary arterial tension and pulmonary arterial pressure (PAP) in renal hypertensive rats (RHR) made by complete ligation of left renal artery. Losartan induced a depressor response that was smaller in RHR than in normotensive rats (NR) (3.3 and 7.0 mmHg, respectively, at 3.0 mg/kg, p<0.05), and the response was significantly reduced by $N^{G}$-nitro-Larginine methyl ester (L-NAME). Angiotensin II elevated the PAP (7.6 and 10.8 mmHg at $0.1 {\mu}g/kg$; 20.3 and 23.6 mmHg at $1.0{\mu}g/kg$, respectively) and contracted the isolated pulmonary artery ($pD_2$: 8.79 and 8.71, respectively) from both NR and RHR with similar magnitude, and these effects were significantly enhanced by L-NAME in NR, but not in RHR. Acetylcholine lowered the PAP slightly less effectively in RHR than in NR (3.8 and 6.0 mmHg at 10 .mu.g/kg, respectively) and relaxed the pulmonary artery precontracted with norepinephrine in both rats with similar magnitude ($E_max$: 60.8 and 63.6%, respectively), and the effect being completely abolished after pretreatment.with L-NAME or removal of endothelial cells. These results suggest that nitric oxide interacts with renin angiotensin system to control the pulmonary vascular tension and pulmonary arterial circulation of RHR.R.

• Journal of Chest Surgery
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• 제24권8호
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• pp.797-801
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• 1991

Reexpansion pulmonary edema following pneumothorax, atelectasis, massive pleural effusion are clinically uncommon, but sometimes life threatening progression. Reexpansion pulmonary edema is usually ipsilateral but rarely contralateral or both. Reexpansion pulmonary edema was occurred when chronically collapsed lung is rapidly reexpanded by evacuation of large amounts of air or fluid. The pathogenesis of the reexpansion pulmonary edema is unknown but is probably mutifactorial. The etiological factors of the reexpansion pulmonary edema are chronicity of the lung collapse, technique of the reexpansion, airway obstruction, loss of the surfactant, and pulmonary artery pressure changes. In the treatment of the chronically collapsed lung, physician must be remembered the possible events, and to prevent of the complication.

• Clinical and Experimental Pediatrics
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• 제46권12호
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• pp.1207-1211
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• 2003

목 적 : RDS가 있는 미숙아에서 질병의 심한 정도와 폐동맥압 및 혈중 L-arginine 농도와는 어떤 연관이 있는지 알아보고자 하였다. 방 법 : RDS로 인공 환기요법을 시행 받은 재태기간 37주 미만 미숙아 21명을 대상으로 하여 제 1병일, 제 3병일, 제 7병일에 혈액을 채취하여 혈중 L-arginine 농도를 측정하였다. 혈액채취와 동일한 시기에 호흡곤란 증후군의 중등도를 나타내는 지수로서 OI를 산출하였고, 도플러 심초음파를 이용하여 RVSTI를 측정하여 폐동맥압의 지표로 삼았다. OI와 혈중 L-arginine 농도 및 RVSTI 간의 상관관계를 알아보았다. 결 과 : 1) OI가 클수록 RDS 미숙아의 혈중 L-arginine 농도는 낮았다(r=-0.346, P<0.01). 2) OI가 클수록 RVSTI도 증가되었다(r=0.772, P<0.01). 3) RVSTI가 커지면 RDS 증후군 미숙아의 혈중 L-arginine 농도는 낮았다(r=-0.416, P<0.01). 결 론 : RDS가 있는 미숙아에서 질병이 심할수록 혈중 L-arginine 농도는 낮고, 폐동맥압은 높았으며, 폐동맥압이 높을수록 혈중 L-arginine 농도는 낮은 관계를 보였다.

• Journal of Chest Surgery
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• 제23권1호
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• pp.32-40
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• 1990

Surgical correction of congenital cardiac defects in infants and children with an elevated pulmonary arterial pressure or pulmonary vascular resistance carries a significant early postoperative mortality. And accurate assessments of cardiac output is critically important in these patients. From April 1988 through September 1989, serial measurements of cardiac index, ratio of pulmonary-systemic systolic pressure, ratio of pulmonary-systemic resistance, central venous pressure, left atrial pressure, and urine output during the first 48 hours after the cardiac operation were made in 30 congenital cardiac defects associated with pulmonary hypertension. Cardiac index showed significant increase only after 24 hour postoperatively and this low cardiac performance in the early postoperative period should be considered when postoperative management is being planned in the risky patients. There were no variables which showed any significant correlation with cardiac index. In 12 cases[40%], pulmonary hypertensive crisis developed during the 48 hours postoperatively, and they were treated with full sedation, hyperventilation with 100 % 0y and pulmonary vasodilator infusion. In all patient with preoperative pulmonary hypertension, surgical placement of a pulmonary artery catheter is desirable to allow prompt diagnosis of pulmonary hypertensive crisis and to monitor subsequent therapy.