Noninvasive estimation of pulmonary vascular resistance in pulmonary hypertension

Echocardiography

Volumn 26, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 489-494

  Rajagopalan, Navin ^a,b   Simon, Marc A ^a   Suffoletto, Matthew S ^a   Shah, Hemal ^a   Edelman, Kathy ^a   Mathier, Michael A ^a   López Candales, Angel ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b Scaife Hall ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

Doppler echocardiography; Pulmonary hypertension; Tricuspid regurgitation

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CARDIOVASCULAR PARAMETERS; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DOPPLER ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HEART CATHETERIZATION; HUMAN; LINEAR REGRESSION ANALYSIS; LUNG VASCULAR RESISTANCE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PULMONARY HYPERTENSION; RIGHT VENTRICULAR OUTFLOW TIME VELOCITY INTEGRAL; TRANSTHORACIC ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; TRICUSPID VALVE REGURGITATION;

BLOOD FLOW VELOCITY; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY, DOPPLER; FEMALE; HUMANS; HYPERTENSION, PULMONARY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PULMONARY ARTERY; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; VASCULAR RESISTANCE;

EID: 65349084357     PISSN: 07422822     EISSN: 15408175     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1540-8175.2008.00837.x     Document Type: Article

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