Percentage of peak-to-peak pulsatility of portal blood flow can predict right-sided congestive heart failure

World Journal of Gastroenterology

Volumn 9, Issue 8, 2003, Pages 1828-1831

  Hu, Jui Ting ^a   Yang, Sien Sing ^a,b   Lai, Yun Chih ^a   Shih, Cheng Yen ^a   Chang, Cheng Wen ^a  

^a CATHAY GENERAL HOSPITAL   (Taiwan)

^b CHINA MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALANINE AMINOTRANSFERASE; ALBUMIN; ASPARTATE AMINOTRANSFERASE; BILIRUBIN; PROTEIN;

ADULT; AORTA PRESSURE; ARTICLE; ATHEROSCLEROSIS; BODY WEIGHT; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONGESTIVE HEART FAILURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOPPLER ECHOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HEART CATHETERIZATION; HEART INDEX; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE ENDDIASTOLIC PRESSURE; HEART RIGHT ATRIUM PRESSURE; HEART RIGHT VENTRICLE PRESSURE; HUMAN; LUNG WEDGE PRESSURE; MALE; MEAN ARTERIAL PRESSURE; PORTAL VEIN BLOOD FLOW; PREDICTION; PROTHROMBIN TIME; RHEUMATIC HEART DISEASE; SYSTOLIC BLOOD PRESSURE;

EID: 0042427806     PISSN: 10079327     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3748/wjg.v9.i8.1828     Document Type: Article

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