Extrinsic compression of the left main coronary artery by the pulmonary artery in patients with long-standing pulmonary hypertension

American Journal of Cardiology

Volumn 83, Issue 6, 1999, Pages 984-986

  Kawut, Steven M ^a   Silvestry, Frank E ^b   Ferrari, Victor A ^b   Denofrio, David ^b   Axel, Leon ^b   Loh, Evan ^b   Palevsky, Harold I ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^b HOSPITAL OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANGIOCARDIOGRAPHY; ARTERY COMPRESSION; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; CORONARY ARTERY; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HEART ATRIUM SEPTUM DEFECT; HEART CATHETERIZATION; HEART LUNG TRANSPLANTATION; HEART VENTRICLE SEPTUM DEFECT; HEMODYNAMICS; HUMAN; MALE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PULMONARY ARTERY; PULMONARY HYPERTENSION;

CINEANGIOGRAPHY; CORONARY DISEASE; CORONARY VESSELS; FEMALE; HUMANS; HYPERTENSION, PULMONARY; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING, CINE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PULMONARY ARTERY;

EID: 0033059840     PISSN: 00029149     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0002-9149(98)01046-7     Document Type: Article

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