Something subtle about death: Isolated systolic pulmonary pressure

Circulation

Volumn 119, Issue 20, 2009, Pages 2647-2649

  Gomberg Maitland, Mardi ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; EDITORIAL; HEART FAILURE; HUMAN; LUNG ARTERY PRESSURE; LUNG BLOOD FLOW; MORTALITY; POPULATION RESEARCH; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SYSTEMIC CIRCULATION; SYSTOLIC BLOOD PRESSURE; TRICUSPID VALVE REGURGITATION;

BLOOD PRESSURE; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; HEART FAILURE; HUMANS; HYPERTENSION;

EID: 67249148968     PISSN: 00097322     EISSN: 15244539     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1161/CIRCULATIONAHA.109.861526     Document Type: Editorial

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