Significant improvement of right ventricular function by imatinib mesylate in scleroderma-associated pulmonary arterial hypertension

Clinical Research in Cardiology

Volumn 98, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 265-267

  Ten Freyhaus, Henrik ^a   Dumitrescu, Daniel ^a   Bovenschulte, Henning ^a   Erdmann, Erland ^a   Rosenkranz, Stephan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLOGNE   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABELSON KINASE; AMINO TERMINAL PRO BRAIN NATRIURETIC PEPTIDE; BOSENTAN; ENDOTHELIN RECEPTOR ANTAGONIST; ILOPROST; IMATINIB; PHOSPHODIESTERASE V INHIBITOR; PLATELET DERIVED GROWTH FACTOR; PROSTANOID; SILDENAFIL;

ADULT; CARDIOTOXICITY; CASE REPORT; CONGESTIVE HEART FAILURE; DIZZINESS; DRUG EFFICACY; DRUG MECHANISM; DRUG SAFETY; FEMALE; HEADACHE; HEART RIGHT VENTRICLE FUNCTION; HIGH RISK PATIENT; HUMAN; LETTER; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PULMONARY HYPERTENSION; SCLERODERMA;

ANIMALS; FEMALE; HUMANS; HYPERTENSION, PULMONARY; MIDDLE AGED; PIPERAZINES; PROTEIN KINASE INHIBITORS; PYRIMIDINES; SCLERODERMA, SYSTEMIC; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VENTRICULAR DYSFUNCTION, RIGHT;

EID: 63449091795     PISSN: 18610684     EISSN: 18610692     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00392-009-0752-3     Document Type: Letter

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