Effects of body position on the carbon monoxide diffusing capacity in patients with chronic heart failure: Relation to hemodynamic changes

Cardiology

Volumn 89, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 1-7

  Faggiano, Pompilio ^a,b   D'Aloia, Antonio ^a   Simoni, Paolo ^a   Gualeni, Anna ^a   Foglio, Katia ^a   Ambrosino, Nicolino ^a   Giordano, Amerigo ^a  

^a IRCCS   (Italy)

^b NONE   (Italy)

Author keywords

Body position; Diffusing capacity; Heart failure; Hemodynamics; Pulmonary function

Indexed keywords

CARBON MONOXIDE; CARBON DIOXIDE;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BLOOD VOLUME; BODY POSITION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONGESTIVE HEART FAILURE; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; HEART CATHETERIZATION; HEART INDEX; HEMODYNAMIC PARAMETERS; HUMAN; LUNG ARTERY PRESSURE; LUNG CAPILLARY; LUNG CAPILLARY PRESSURE; LUNG DIFFUSION; LUNG FUNCTION TEST; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; REPRODUCIBILITY; SITTING; SUPINE POSITION; BODY POSTURE; FEMALE; HEMODYNAMICS; LUNG GAS EXCHANGE; LUNG WEDGE PRESSURE; MIDDLE AGED; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; PULMONARY ARTERY;

ADULT; AGED; CARBON DIOXIDE; FEMALE; HEART FAILURE, CONGESTIVE; HEMODYNAMIC PROCESSES; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; POSTURE; PULMONARY ARTERY; PULMONARY GAS EXCHANGE; PULMONARY WEDGE PRESSURE;

EID: 0030830927     PISSN: 00086312     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000006735     Document Type: Article

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