[ECHOCARDIOGRAPHIC PREDICTORS OF THE SEVERITY OF THE EARLY POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD IN PATIENTS AFTER SURGICAL MYOCARDIAL...

Non-invasive and easily interpretable methods for assessing cardiac hemodynainic parameters including various echocardiographic technologies are highly valuable diagnostic methods in cardiac surgery patients admitting the intensive care unit in the postoperative period. The article presents echocardiographic features of the myocardial functional state in the early period after coronary artery bypass grafting performed in 201 CHD patients. The analysis includes standard echocardiographic parameters and data obtained from tissue Doppler imaging. Tissue Doppler imaging has shown to be informative for diagnosing heart failure. Low left ventricular volumes and restrictive type myocardial diastolic dysfunction have proven to be early echocardiographic predictors of poor prognosis in CAD patients after myocardial revascularization.