The usefulness of contrast during exercise echocardiography for the assessment of systolic pulmonary pressure

Cardiovascular Ultrasound

Volumn 6, Issue , 2008, Pages

  Lopes, Luis R ^a   Loureiro, Maria J ^a   Miranda, Rita ^a   Almeida, Sofia ^a   Almeida, Ana R ^a   Cordeiro, Ana ^a   Cotrim, Carlos ^a   Carrageta, Manuel ^a  

^a HOSPITAL GARCIA DE ORTA   (Portugal)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONTRAST MEDIUM; SODIUM CHLORIDE;

AGED; ANAMNESIS; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL ASSESSMENT; CONTRAST ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DECUBITUS; DOPPLER ECHOGRAPHY; EXERCISE ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HEART RIGHT ATRIUM; HEART RIGHT VENTRICLE; HUMAN; LUNG ARTERY PRESSURE; LUNG EMBOLISM; MALE; PERIPHERAL VEIN; PULMONARY HYPERTENSION; STANDING; SYSTEMIC SCLEROSIS; SYSTOLIC BLOOD PRESSURE; TRANSTHORACIC ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; VASCULAR ACCESS; ADULT; BLOOD PRESSURE; BLOOD PRESSURE MEASUREMENT; COMPARATIVE STUDY; ECHOGRAPHY; EVALUATION; EXERCISE TEST; HEART CATHETERIZATION; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PULMONARY ARTERY; STANDARD; STRESS ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY;

ADULT; AGED; BLOOD PRESSURE; BLOOD PRESSURE DETERMINATION; CONTRAST MEDIA; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY, STRESS; EXERCISE TEST; FEMALE; HEART CATHETERIZATION; HUMANS; HYPERTENSION, PULMONARY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PULMONARY ARTERY;

EID: 54249132106     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14767120     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1476-7120-6-51     Document Type: Article

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