TY - JOUR
T1 - Causes of Reversed Pulsus Paradoxus
AU - Harber, Philip I
PY - 1974/8/29
Y1 - 1974/8/29
N2 - To the Editor: Massumi et al. (N Engl J Med 289:1272, 1973) recently described three causes of reversed pulsus paradoxus (inspiratory rise in the arterial blood pressure). We have observed this phenomenon in another clinical situation, during intermittent positive-pressure ventilation of a patient receiving circulatory support with an intrathoracic, intra-aortic, counterpulsation balloon pump (this balloon placed via the femoral artery and inflated during diastole boosts the cardiac output and decreases the afterload faced by the heart). A 59-year-old patient received this therapy for circulatory failure after a ventricular aneurysmectomy and coronary-artery bypass graft. The arterial blood pressure was recorded from ….
AB - To the Editor: Massumi et al. (N Engl J Med 289:1272, 1973) recently described three causes of reversed pulsus paradoxus (inspiratory rise in the arterial blood pressure). We have observed this phenomenon in another clinical situation, during intermittent positive-pressure ventilation of a patient receiving circulatory support with an intrathoracic, intra-aortic, counterpulsation balloon pump (this balloon placed via the femoral artery and inflated during diastole boosts the cardiac output and decreases the afterload faced by the heart). A 59-year-old patient received this therapy for circulatory failure after a ventricular aneurysmectomy and coronary-artery bypass graft. The arterial blood pressure was recorded from ….
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U2 - 10.1056/NEJM197408292910913
DO - 10.1056/NEJM197408292910913
M3 - Letter
C2 - 4602081
AN - SCOPUS:85023675728
SN - 0028-4793
VL - 291
SP - 473
JO - New England Journal of Medicine
JF - New England Journal of Medicine
IS - 9
ER -