Utility of echocardiography and serum troponin levels in pulmonary embolism

Echocardiography

Volumn 22, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 151-153

  Nachimuthu, Senthil ^a,b,f   Ashby, Keith ^a,b   Humphers, Gregory ^a   Balasundaram, Priyankha ^c   Kerut, Edmund Kenneth ^d,e  

^a Huey P Long Medical Center   (United States)

^b TULANE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c MADRAS MEDICAL COLLEGE   (India)

^d LOUISIANA STATE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^e HEART CLINIC OF LOUISIANA   (United States)

^f NONE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HEPARIN; TROPONIN; WARFARIN;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL FEATURE; DISEASE COURSE; DISEASE MARKER; DYSPNEA; FEMALE; HEART RIGHT ATRIUM PRESSURE; HEART RIGHT BUNDLE BRANCH BLOCK; HUMAN; LUNG EMBOLISM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN BLOOD LEVEL; SINUS TACHYCARDIA; THORAX PAIN; TRANSTHORACIC ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY;

ADULT; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY, TRANSESOPHAGEAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; PULMONARY EMBOLISM; TROPONIN;

EID: 13444311696     PISSN: 07422822     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.0742-2822.2005.04075.x     Document Type: Article

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