Unreliability of cardiothoracic ratio as a marker of left ventricular impairment: Comparison with radionuclide ventriculography and echocardiography

Postgraduate Medical Journal

Volumn 76, Issue 895, 2000, Pages 289-291

  Clark, Andrew L ^a   Coats, Andrew J S ^b  

^a CASTLE HILL HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^b IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Chest radiography; Chronic heart failure; Echocardiography; Radionuclide ventriculography

Indexed keywords

DIGOXIN; FUROSEMIDE;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE FAILURE; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE FUNCTION; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE SIZE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL ASSESSMENT; RADIOISOTOPE VENTRICULOGRAPHY; RELIABILITY; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY;

AGED; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RADIONUCLIDE VENTRICULOGRAPHY; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; VENTRICULAR DYSFUNCTION, LEFT;

EID: 0034004322     PISSN: 00325473     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/pmj.76.895.289     Document Type: Article

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