Noninvasive differential diagnosis between chronic pulmonary thromboembolism and primary pulmonary hypertension by means of Doppler ultrasound measurement

Journal of the American College of Cardiology

Volumn 31, Issue 6, 1998, Pages 1367-1371

  Nakayama, Yasunori ^a   Sugimachi, Masaru ^a   Nakanishi, Norifumi ^a   Takaki, Hiroshi ^a   Okano, Yoshiaki ^a   Satoh, Toru ^a   Miyatake, Kunio ^a   Sunagawa, Kenji ^a  

^a NATIONAL CEREBRAL AND CARDIOVASCULAR CENTER   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BLOOD FLOW VELOCITY; CHRONIC DISEASE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; DOPPLER ECHOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMAN; LUNG ARTERY PRESSURE; LUNG EMBOLISM; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PULMONARY HYPERTENSION; PULMONARY VALVE INSUFFICIENCY; PULSE PRESSURE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; THROMBOEMBOLISM; TRICUSPID VALVE REGURGITATION;

ADULT; BLOOD PRESSURE; CHRONIC DISEASE; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY, DOPPLER; FEMALE; HEART RATE; HUMANS; HYPERTENSION, PULMONARY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PULMONARY EMBOLISM; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; ROC CURVE;

EID: 0032080555     PISSN: 07351097     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0735-1097(98)00107-7     Document Type: Article

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