Retrospective study of pulmonary hypertensive patients: Is right ventricular myocardial performance index a vital prognostic factor?

Hellenic Journal of Cardiology

Volumn 48, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 152-160

  Grapsa, Ioulia ^a,b   Pavlopoulos, Harry ^a   Dawson, David ^a   Gibbs, J Simon R ^a   Nihoyannopoulos, Petros ^a  

^a IMPERIAL COLLEGE SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United Kingdom)

^b HAMMERSMITH HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Myocardial performance index; Prognosis; Pulmonary hypertension; Right ventricle; Treatment

Indexed keywords

BOSENTAN; ILOPROST; SILDENAFIL; UNIPROST;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOPPLER ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HEART PERFORMANCE; HEART RIGHT VENTRICLE FAILURE; HUMAN; IMAGINAL DISC; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PERICARDIAL EFFUSION; PROGNOSIS; PULMONARY HYPERTENSION; PULMONARY VALVE INSUFFICIENCY; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; ECHOGRAPHY; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE FUNCTION; HEART MUSCLE; HEART RIGHT VENTRICLE FUNCTION; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; PATHOLOGY; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY, DOPPLER, COLOR; FEMALE; HUMANS; HYPERTENSION, PULMONARY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MYOCARDIUM; PROGNOSIS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; VENTRICULAR DYSFUNCTION, LEFT; VENTRICULAR DYSFUNCTION, RIGHT;

EID: 34548010092     PISSN: 10117970     EISSN: 10117970     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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