Disfunción diastólica del ventrículo sistémico en el postoperatorio de cirugía cardiaca pediátrica

Resumen

Ventricular diastolic dysfunction has a proven importance in thepathophysiology of heart failure in adult patients, although it is still an underdiagnosed entity in the pediatric population, and its diagnosis is complicated by the lack of specific guidelines for this population, unlike in the adult population. Diastolic dysfunction of the systemic ventricle can be defined as the situation in which, in order to maintain an adequate cardiac output, the filling pressure of the systemic ventricle (left ventricle in biventricular physiology, right ventricle in congenitally corrected transposition and single ventricle inuniventricular physiology) is increased, and it can present with a varied symptomatology, from with exercise to advanced heart failure...