Echocardiography versus right-sided heart catheterization among lung transplantation candidates

Annals of Thoracic Surgery

Volumn 81, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 1056-1060

  Ben Dor, Itsik ^a   Kramer, Mordechai R ^a   Raccah, Avraham ^a   Iakobishvilli, Zaza ^a   Shitrit, David ^a   Sahar, Gideon ^a   Hasdai, David ^a,b  

^a TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

^b RABIN MEDICAL CENTER   (Israel)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BLOOD PRESSURE MEASUREMENT; BLOOD PRESSURE MONITORING; COHORT ANALYSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; FEMALE; HEART CATHETERIZATION; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; INTRAOPERATIVE PERIOD; LUNG PRESSURE; LUNG TRANSPLANTATION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PATIENT ASSESSMENT; PREOPERATIVE PERIOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK; SURGICAL PATIENT; SYSTOLIC BLOOD PRESSURE; TIME; TRANSTHORACIC ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY;

ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY, DOPPLER; HEART CATHETERIZATION; HUMANS; LUNG DISEASES; LUNG TRANSPLANTATION; MIDDLE AGED; PATIENT SELECTION; PREOPERATIVE CARE; PULMONARY ARTERY; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES;

EID: 32644489119     PISSN: 00034975     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.athoracsur.2005.07.073     Document Type: Article

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