Undercover and overlooked

New England Journal of Medicine

Volumn 351, Issue 10, 2004, Pages

  Wang, Andrew ^a   Bashore, Thomas M ^a  

^a DUKE UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DIURETIC AGENT; DOBUTAMINE;

AGED; ANAMNESIS; CARDIOPULMONARY BYPASS; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL EXAMINATION; CLINICAL FEATURE; CONSTRICTIVE PERICARDITIS; CONTRAST ENHANCEMENT; COUGHING; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; DYSPNEA; GASTROESOPHAGEAL REFLUX; HEART CATHETERIZATION; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; HYPERTENSION; LABORATORY TEST; LEG EDEMA; MALE; OBESITY; PERICARDIECTOMY; POLYSOMNOGRAPHY; POSITIVE END EXPIRATORY PRESSURE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTER TOMOGRAPHY; SLEEP APNEA SYNDROME; SPIRAL COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; SYMPTOM; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY; TRANSTHORACIC ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; WHEEZING; ARTICLE; BLOOD EXAMINATION; BLOOD PRESSURE; CARDIOMEGALY; CONGESTIVE HEART FAILURE; DIAGNOSTIC ERROR; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; EDEMA; HEMODYNAMICS; LEG; LUNG; PATHOLOGY; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PERICARDIAL EFFUSION; PERICARDIUM; RADIOGRAPHY;

AGED; BLOOD PRESSURE; CARDIOMEGALY; COUGH; DIAGNOSTIC ERRORS; DYSPNEA; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; EDEMA; HEART CATHETERIZATION; HEART FAILURE, CONGESTIVE; HEMATOLOGIC TESTS; HEMODYNAMIC PROCESSES; HUMANS; LOWER EXTREMITY; LUNG; MALE; PERICARDIAL EFFUSION; PERICARDITIS, CONSTRICTIVE; PERICARDIUM; SLEEP APNEA SYNDROMES;

EID: 4344559243     PISSN: 00284793     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1056/NEJMcps033021     Document Type: Review

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