Current concepts: Chronic thromboembolic pulmonary hypertension

New England Journal of Medicine

Volumn 345, Issue 20, 2001, Pages 1465-1472

  Fedullo, Peter F ^a   Auger, William R ^a   Kerr, Kim M ^a   Rubin, Lewis J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SAN DIEGO   (United States)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ANTICOAGULANT AGENT;

ANGIOCARDIOGRAPHY; ANTICOAGULATION; CLINICAL FEATURE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; ENDARTERECTOMY; EPIDEMIOLOGY; HUMAN; LUNG ANGIOGRAPHY; LUNG EMBOLISM; LUNG SCINTISCANNING; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; REVIEW; THROMBOEMBOLISM; CHRONIC DISEASE; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; METHODOLOGY; PULMONARY ARTERY; PULMONARY HYPERTENSION; RADIOGRAPHY;

CHRONIC DISEASE; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; ENDARTERECTOMY; HUMANS; HYPERTENSION, PULMONARY; PROGNOSIS; PULMONARY ARTERY; PULMONARY EMBOLISM; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 0035891626     PISSN: 00284793     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1056/NEJMra010902     Document Type: Review

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