Diastolic function abnormalities in rheumatoid arthritis. Evaluation by echo Doppler transmitral flow and pulmonary venous flow: Relation with duration of disease

Annals of the Rheumatic Diseases

Volumn 59, Issue 3, 2000, Pages 227-229

  Di Franco, Manuela ^a   Paradiso, Michele ^a   Mammarella, Antonio ^a   Paoletti, Vincenzo ^a   Labbadia, Giancarlo ^a   Coppotelli, Luigi ^a   Taccari, Egisto ^a   Musca, Antonino ^a  

^a SAPIENZA UNIVERSITY OF ROME   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BLOOD FLOW VELOCITY; CLINICAL ARTICLE; DIASTOLE; DISEASE DURATION; DOPPLER ECHOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HEART DISEASE; HEART FUNCTION; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE FILLING PRESSURE; HUMAN; LUNG BLOOD FLOW; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PULMONARY VEIN; RHEUMATOID ARTHRITIS; SURVIVAL TIME; VEIN BLOOD FLOW;

ADULT; AGED; ARTHRITIS, RHEUMATOID; BLOOD FLOW VELOCITY; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY, DOPPLER; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MITRAL VALVE; PULMONARY VEINS; TIME FACTORS; VENTRICULAR FUNCTION, LEFT;

EID: 0034075496     PISSN: 00034967     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/ard.59.3.227     Document Type: Article

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