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Figure 3

From: Clinical review: Positive end-expiratory pressure and cardiac output

Figure 3

Characteristic echocardiographic patterns of acute cor pulmonale with transesophageal echocardiography. In the upper panel, right ventricular (RV) dilation is observed in a long-axis view, at end-diastole (left) and end-systole (right). Also note the reduced size of the left ventricle (LV). In the lower panel, septal dyskinesia is observed, in the same patient, in a short-axis view: at end-systole/early diastole (right) the interventricular septum (IVS) is shifted toward the LV cavity center, and the septal curvature is inverted (arrow). TP, tracheal pressure. Reproduced from [63], with permission.

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