Short-term clinical outcome of patients with acute pulmonary embolism, normal blood pressure, and echocardiographic right ventricular dysfunction

Circulation

Volumn 101, Issue 24, 2000, Pages 2817-2822

  Grifoni, Stefano ^a   Olivotto, Iacopo ^a,c   Cecchini, Paolo ^a   Pieralli, Filippo ^a   Camaiti, Alberto ^a   Santoro, Gennaro ^a   Conti, Alberto ^a   Agnelli, Giancarlo ^b   Berni, Giancarlo ^a  

^a CAREGGI UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PERUGIA   (Italy)

^c NONE   (Italy)

Author keywords

Echocardiography; Embolism; Shock

Indexed keywords

AGED; ARTICLE; BLOOD PRESSURE; CARDIOGENIC SHOCK; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HEART RIGHT VENTRICLE FAILURE; HUMAN; LUNG EMBOLISM; MALE; MORTALITY; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; PULMONARY HYPERTENSION;

EID: 0034691310     PISSN: 00097322     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1161/01.CIR.101.24.2817     Document Type: Article

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