Causes and consequences of systemic venous hypertension

American Journal of the Medical Sciences

Volumn 336, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 489-497

  Paulus, Basil M ^a   Ali, Sheharyar ^a   Zia, Ayhan A ^a   Munir, Ahmad ^a   Davis, Richard C ^a   Mansbach, Charles M ^a   Smith, W Chapman ^a   Weber, Karl T ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE HEALTH SCIENCE CENTER   (United States)

^b VETERANS AFFAIRS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Edema and ascites; Heart failure; Lymphatic circulation; Systemic veins

Indexed keywords

CYANOCOBALAMIN; DIGOXIN; DIPEPTIDYL CARBOXYPEPTIDASE INHIBITOR; FUROSEMIDE; LOOP DIURETIC AGENT; SODIUM; SPIRONOLACTONE;

ABDOMINAL DISTENSION; ADULT; ANASARCA; ARTICLE; ASCITES; BED REST; CANNULATION; CASE REPORT; COMPRESSION GARMENT; CONGESTIVE CARDIOMYOPATHY; DIET; DYSPNEA; EXERCISE; GASTROINTESTINAL CONGESTION; GASTROINTESTINAL DISEASE; GLOMERULUS FILTRATION; HEART FAILURE; HEART VENTRICLE FAILURE; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; HYPOALBUMINEMIA; INTESTINE; KIDNEY PERFUSION; LEG SWELLING; LIVER CONGESTION; LYMPHATIC DRAINAGE; LYMPHOCYTOPENIA; MALE; MASSAGE; PANCREAS; PARACENTESIS; PATIENT COMPLIANCE; PERFUSION PRESSURE; PROTEIN LOSING GASTROENTEROPATHY; SCROTAL SWELLING; SODIUM RETENTION; SPLANCHNIC BLOOD FLOW; SYSTEMIC VENOUS HYPERTENSION; SYSTOLIC DYSFUNCTION; SYSTOLIC HEART MURMUR; THORACIC DUCT; TRICUSPID VALVE REGURGITATION; VENOUS CIRCULATION; WATER RETENTION; WHEEZING; EDEMA; HEMODYNAMICS; LYMPHATIC SYSTEM; MIDDLE AGED; PATHOLOGY; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY;

ASCITES; EDEMA; HEART FAILURE; HEMODYNAMICS; HUMANS; HYPERTENSION; LYMPHATIC SYSTEM; MALE; MIDDLE AGED;

EID: 59049107286     PISSN: 00029629     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/MAJ.0b013e318176abe9     Document Type: Review

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