Clinical and laboratory features of scleroderma patients with pulmonary hypertension

Rheumatology

Volumn 39, Issue 11, 2000, Pages 1269-1271

  Yamane, K ^a   Ihn, H ^a   Asano, Y ^a   Yazawa, N ^a   Kubo, M ^a   Kikuchi, K ^a   Soma, Y ^a   Tamaki, K ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

Author keywords

Doppler echocardiography; Pulmonary hypertension; Scleroderma

Indexed keywords

C REACTIVE PROTEIN; IMMUNOGLOBULIN G;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CALCINOSIS; CARDIOPULMONARY HEMODYNAMICS; CLINICAL FEATURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOPPLER ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; ERYTHROCYTE SEDIMENTATION RATE; FEMALE; FORCED EXPIRATORY VOLUME; HUMAN; LABORATORY TEST; LUNG FIBROSIS; LUNG GAS EXCHANGE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PHALANX; PIGMENTATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PULMONARY HYPERTENSION; SCAR; SCLERODERMA; SUBLINGUAL GLAND; SYSTOLIC BLOOD PRESSURE; TELANGIECTASIA; ULCER;

EID: 0033677566     PISSN: 14620324     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/rheumatology/39.11.1269     Document Type: Article

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