An Alternative Echocardiographic Method to Estimate Mean Pulmonary Artery Pressure: Diagnostic and Clinical Implications

Journal of the American Society of Echocardiography

Volumn 22, Issue 7, 2009, Pages 814-819

  Aduen, Javier F ^a   Castello, Ramon ^a   Lozano, Marcelo M ^a   Hepler, George N ^a   Keller, Cesar A ^a   Alvarez, Francisco ^a   Safford, Robert E ^a   Crook, Julia E ^a   Heckman, Michael G ^a   Burger, Charles D ^a  

^a MAYO CLINIC   (United States)

Author keywords

Doppler echocardiography; Mean pulmonary pressure; Pulmonary hypertension

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HEART CATHETERIZATION; HEART RIGHT ATRIUM PRESSURE; HEART RIGHT VENTRICLE; HUMAN; LUNG ARTERY PRESSURE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PULMONARY HYPERTENSION; SYSTOLE;

BLOOD PRESSURE; BLOOD PRESSURE DETERMINATION; CATHETERIZATION, SWAN-GANZ; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HEART VENTRICLES; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PULMONARY ARTERY; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

EID: 67649097066     PISSN: 08947317     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.echo.2009.04.007     Document Type: Article

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