Role of Echocardiography in the Diagnosis and Follow-up of Patients with Pulmonary Arterial and Chronic Thromboembolic Pulmonary Hypertension

Hellenic Journal of Cardiology

Volumn 45, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 48-56

  Stefanidis, Alexandros ^a   Koutroulis, George ^a   Kollias, George ^a   Gibbs, J Simon R ^a   Nihoyannopoulos, Petros ^a  

^a HAMMERSMITH HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Echocardiography; Pulmonary hypertension

Indexed keywords

DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; DOPPLER ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; ENDARTERECTOMY; HUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PATIENT REFERRAL; PULMONARY HYPERTENSION; REVIEW; SPIRAL COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; THROMBOEMBOLISM; TWO DIMENSIONAL ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY;

EID: 0842305875     PISSN: 10117970     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Review

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