Doppler echocardiography - Right heart catheterization relationships in patients with idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis and suspected pulmonary hypertension

Medical Science Monitor

Volumn 14, Issue 4, 2008, Pages

  Swanson, Karen L ^a   Utz, James P ^a   Krowka, Michael J ^a  

^a Mayo Clinic   (United States)

Author keywords

Doppler echocardiography; Interstitial lung disease: Clinical manifestations; Lung fibrosis; Pulmonary fibrosis and hypertension; Right heart catheterization

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DOPPLER ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; FIBROSING ALVEOLITIS; HEART CATHETERIZATION; HEART HEMODYNAMICS; HEART OUTPUT; HUMAN; INTERSTITIAL LUNG DISEASE; LUNG FUNCTION; MALE; MEAN ARTERIAL PRESSURE; PULMONARY ARTERY OCCLUSION PRESSURE; PULMONARY HYPERTENSION;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY, DOPPLER; FEMALE; HEART CATHETERIZATION; HUMANS; HYPERTENSION, PULMONARY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PULMONARY FIBROSIS;

EID: 42049120941     PISSN: 12341010     EISSN: 16433750     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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