Estimating mean pulmonary wedge pressure in patients with chronic atrial fibrillation from transthoracic Doppler indexes of mitral and pulmonary venous flow velocity

Journal of the American College of Cardiology

Volumn 30, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 19-26

  Chirillo, Fabio ^a   Brunazzi, Maria Cristiana ^b   Barbiero, Mario ^b   Giavarina, Davide ^b   Pasqualini, Mario ^b   Franceschini Grisolia, Enrico ^a   Cotogni, Angelo ^b   Cavarzerani, Antonio ^a   Rigatelli, Giorgio ^b   Stritoni, Paolo ^a   Longhini, Carlo ^c  

^a Regional Hospital   (Italy)

^b Legnago Hospital   (Italy)

^c UNIVERSITY OF FERRARA   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; BLOOD FLOW VELOCITY; CHRONIC DISEASE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; DOPPLER ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HEART ATRIUM FIBRILLATION; HEART CATHETERIZATION; HUMAN; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PULMONARY VEIN; TRANSTHORACIC ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; VEIN BLOOD FLOW;

AGE FACTORS; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ATRIAL FIBRILLATION; CHRONIC DISEASE; CONFOUNDING FACTORS (EPIDEMIOLOGY); FEMALE; HUMANS; LINEAR MODELS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MITRAL VALVE; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; PULMONARY VALVE; PULMONARY WEDGE PRESSURE; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, DOPPLER, PULSED;

EID: 17444437134     PISSN: 07351097     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0735-1097(97)00130-7     Document Type: Article

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