The clinical significance of reversed flow in the main pulmonary artery detected by Doppler color flow imaging

Chest

Volumn 118, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 336-341

  Murata, Ichiro ^a   Sonoda, Makoto ^a   Morita, Toshihiro ^a   Nakamura, Fumitaka ^a   Takenaka, Katsu ^a   Nagai, Ryozo ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

Author keywords

Blood flow; Color flow imaging; Pulmonary artery; Pulmonary hypertension

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTERY DIAMETER; ARTICLE; COLOR ULTRASOUND FLOWMETRY; DOPPLER ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HEART LEFT ATRIUM PRESSURE; HEMODYNAMICS; HUMAN; LUNG ARTERY PRESSURE; LUNG BLOOD FLOW; LUNG CAPILLARY PRESSURE; LUNG VASCULAR RESISTANCE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PULMONARY ARTERY; PULMONARY HYPERTENSION;

EID: 0033889192     PISSN: 00123692     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1378/chest.118.2.336     Document Type: Article

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