Diagnostic value of pulsed Doppler echocardiography in acute pulmonary thromboembolism - Comparison with pulmonary angiography and pulmonary artery pressure

Japanese Circulation Journal

Volumn 65, Issue 3, 2001, Pages 171-176

  Yoshinaga, T ^a   Ikeda, S ^a   Nishimura, E ^a   Shioguchi, K ^a   Shikuwa, M ^a   Miyahara, Y ^a   Kohno, S ^a  

^a NAGASAKI UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Angiography; Echocardiography; Embolism; Pulmonary heart disease

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CORRELATION FUNCTION; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; DISEASE SEVERITY; DOPPLER ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HEART RIGHT VENTRICLE EJECTION FRACTION; HUMAN; LUNG ANGIOGRAPHY; LUNG ARTERY PRESSURE; LUNG EMBOLISM; LUNG RESISTANCE; MALE; PULMONARY HYPERTENSION;

ACUTE DISEASE; AGED; BLOOD PRESSURE; CARDIAC OUTPUT; CORONARY ANGIOGRAPHY; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY, DOPPLER, PULSED; FEMALE; HEART CATHETERIZATION; HEMODYNAMIC PROCESSES; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PULMONARY ARTERY; PULMONARY EMBOLISM;

EID: 0035100590     PISSN: 00471828     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1253/jcj.65.171     Document Type: Article

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