Prediction of moderate or severe pulmonary hypertension by main pulmonary artery diameter and main pulmonary artery diameter/ascending aorta diameter in pulmonary embolism

Cardiology in Review

Volumn 14, Issue 5, 2006, Pages 213-214

  Sanal, Shirin ^a   Aronow, Wilbert S ^a   Ravipati, Gautham ^a   Maguire, George P ^a   Belkin, Robert N ^a   Lehrman, Stuart G ^a  

^a NEW YORK MEDICAL COLLEGE   (United States)

Author keywords

Main pulmonary artery diameter; Main pulmonary artery diameter ascending aorta diameter; Pulmonary embolism; Pulmonary hypertension

Indexed keywords

ACUTE DISEASE; ADULT; AGED; ARTERY DIAMETER; ARTICLE; ASCENDING AORTA; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; DISEASE SEVERITY; DOPPLER ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMAN; LUNG ARTERY PRESSURE; LUNG EMBOLISM; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PREDICTION; PULMONARY ARTERY; PULMONARY HYPERTENSION; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SYSTOLIC BLOOD PRESSURE;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AORTA, THORACIC; BLOOD PRESSURE; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY, DOPPLER; FEMALE; HUMANS; HYPERTENSION, PULMONARY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; PULMONARY ARTERY; PULMONARY EMBOLISM; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; TOMOGRAPHY, SPIRAL COMPUTED;

EID: 33748039471     PISSN: 10615377     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.crd.0000181619.87084.8b     Document Type: Article

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