Relationship between Pulmonary Artery Diameter at Computed Tomography and Pulmonary Artery Pressures at Right-sided Heart Catheterization

Academic Radiology

Volumn 4, Issue 5, 1997, Pages 327-334

  Ackman Haimovici, Jeanne B ^a   Trotman Dickenson, Beatrice ^a   Halpern, Elkan F ^a   Dec, G William ^a   Ginns, Leo C ^a   Shepard, Jo Anne O ^a   McLoud, Theresa C ^a  

^a MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

Heart, interventional procedure; Heart, transplantation; Hypertension, pulmonary; Lung, transplantation; Pulmonary arteries, CT

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; BLOOD PRESSURE; BODY SURFACE; CHRONIC DISEASE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HEART CATHETERIZATION; HEART LUNG TRANSPLANTATION; HEART TRANSPLANTATION; HISTOLOGY; HUMAN; LUNG DISEASE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; PULMONARY ARTERY; PULMONARY HYPERTENSION; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; REPRODUCIBILITY; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; VASCULAR DISEASE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; BLOOD PRESSURE; BODY SURFACE AREA; CHRONIC DISEASE; FEMALE; HEART CATHETERIZATION; HEART TRANSPLANTATION; HEART-LUNG TRANSPLANTATION; HUMANS; HYPERTENSION, PULMONARY; LUNG DISEASES; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; PULMONARY ARTERY; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; VASCULAR DISEASES;

EID: 0031134994     PISSN: 10766332     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1076-6332(97)80111-0     Document Type: Article

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