Sonospirometry: A new method for noninvasive estimation of mean right atrial pressure based on two-dimensional echographic measurements of the inferior vena cava during measured inspiration

Journal of the American College of Cardiology

Volumn 11, Issue 3, 1988, Pages 557-564

  Simonson, Jay S ^a   Schiller, Nelson B ^a  

^a From the Division of Cardiology Department of Medicine Department of Radiology and the Cardiovascular Research Institute University of California School of Medicine San Francisco USA ^*

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; CLINICAL ARTICLE; DIAGNOSIS; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; HEART RIGHT ATRIUM PRESSURE; HUMAN; SPIROMETRY;

ADULT; AGED; ASPIRATION; BLOOD PRESSURE; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; EVALUATION STUDIES; FEMALE; HEART ATRIUM; HUMAN; LUNG DISEASES, OBSTRUCTIVE; MALE; MIDDLE AGE; PULMONARY WEDGE PRESSURE; RESPIRATION; SPIROMETRY; SUPPORT, U.S. GOV'T, P.H.S.; VENA CAVA, INFERIOR; VENOUS PRESSURE; VIDEOTAPE RECORDING;

EID: 0023856911     PISSN: 07351097     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0735-1097(88)91531-8     Document Type: Article

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