Interval increase in right-left ventricular diameter ratios at CT as a predictor of 30-day mortality after acute pulmonary embolism: Initial experience

Radiology

Volumn 246, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 281-287

  Lu, Michael T ^a   Cai, Tianxi ^c   Ersoy, Hale ^a   Whitmore, Amanda G ^a   Quiroz, Rene ^d   Goldhaber, Samuel Z ^b   Rybicki, Frank J ^a  

^a BRIGHAM AND WOMEN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

^b HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^c HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE VOLUME; HEART RIGHT VENTRICLE VOLUME; HUMAN; LUNG EMBOLISM; MALE; MORTALITY; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECEIVER OPERATING CHARACTERISTIC; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; STANDARD;

ACUTE DISEASE; FEMALE; HEART VENTRICLES; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; PULMONARY EMBOLISM; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TIME FACTORS; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 37349114838     PISSN: 00338419     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1148/radiol.2461062004     Document Type: Article

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