Pulmonary artery systolic pressures estimated by echocardiogram vs cardiac catheterization in patients awaiting lung transplantation

Journal of Heart and Lung Transplantation

Volumn 20, Issue 8, 2001, Pages 833-839

  Homma, Arturo ^a,b   Anzueto, Antonio ^a   Peters, Jay I ^a   Susanto, Irawan ^a   Sako, Edward ^a   Zabalgoitia, Miguel ^a   Bryan, Charles L ^a   Levine, Stephanie M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS HEALTH SCIENCE CENTER AT SAN ANTONIO   (United States)

^b SOUTH TEXAS VETERANS HEALTH CARE SYSTEM   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CARDIOPULMONARY BYPASS; CHRONIC OBSTRUCTIVE LUNG DISEASE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; FEMALE; HEART CATHETERIZATION; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; LUNG ARTERY PRESSURE; LUNG FIBROSIS; LUNG TRANSPLANTATION; MALE; MEDICAL DECISION MAKING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PULMONARY HYPERTENSION; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SCLERODERMA; SYSTOLIC BLOOD PRESSURE; TECHNIQUE; TRANSTHORACIC ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; TRICUSPID VALVE REGURGITATION;

ADULT; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY, DOPPLER; FEMALE; HEART CATHETERIZATION; HUMANS; HYPERTENSION, PULMONARY; LUNG TRANSPLANTATION; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PULMONARY FIBROSIS; PULMONARY WEDGE PRESSURE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SYSTOLE; WAITING LISTS;

EID: 0034898262     PISSN: 10532498     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1053-2498(01)00274-1     Document Type: Article

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