The Tei Index as an Expression of Right Ventricular Impairment and Recovery. Investment Grade or Subprime?

JACC: Cardiovascular Imaging

Volumn 2, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 150-152

  Schiller, Nelson B ^a   Kwan, Damon M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

chronic thromboembolic pulmonary hypertension; Doppler echocardiography; pulmonary embolism; pulmonary hypertension; pulmonary thromboendarterectomy; right ventricular function; right ventricular myocardial performance index; systolic time intervals

Indexed keywords

CHRONIC THROMBOEMBOLIC PULMONARY HYPERTENSION; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; DOPPLER ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; EDITORIAL; ENDARTERECTOMY; HEART AFTERLOAD; HEART PERFORMANCE; HEART RIGHT VENTRICLE EJECTION FRACTION; HEART RIGHT VENTRICLE FUNCTION; HEART RIGHT VENTRICLE VOLUME; HUMAN; LUNG HEMODYNAMICS; LUNG VASCULAR RESISTANCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PULMONARY HYPERTENSION; SYSTOLIC TIME INTERVAL; TWO DIMENSIONAL ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY;

BLOOD PRESSURE; CARDIAC OUTPUT; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY, DOPPLER; HEART CATHETERIZATION; HEMODYNAMICS; HUMANS; HYPERTENSION, PULMONARY; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MYOCARDIAL CONTRACTION; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; PULMONARY ARTERY; VASCULAR RESISTANCE; VENTRICULAR DYSFUNCTION, RIGHT; VENTRICULAR FUNCTION, RIGHT;

EID: 59649094101     PISSN: 1936878X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jcmg.2008.11.006     Document Type: Editorial

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