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Right ventricular failure in acute respiratory distress syndrome
M J Romberg-Camps1, H H Korsten, C J Botman
1Department of Internal Medicine, Catharina Hospital Eindhoven, P.O. Box 1350, 5602 ZA, Eindhoven, The Netherlands.
The Netherlands Journal of Medicine
|September 9, 2000
Abstract:
Right ventricular failure can be the result of acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS). A patient with eclampsia and sepsis with Staphylococcus aureus developed life-threatening right ventricular failure as a result of ARDS. She finally stabilized after treatment with inhaled nitric oxide (NO). The pathophysiology of right ventricular failure in ARDS is described.