Doppler Echocardiography Can Provide a Comprehensive Assessment of Right Ventricular Afterload

Journal of the American Society of Echocardiography

Volumn 22, Issue 12, 2009, Pages 1360-1367

  Bech Hanssen, Odd ^a   Selimovic, Nedim ^a   Rundqvist, Bengt ^a   Wallentin, Jonas ^a  

^a SAHLGRENSKA UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Doppler echocardiography; Pulmonary artery pressure; Pulmonary hypertension; Right ventricular afterload

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; DOPPLER ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; HEART AFTERLOAD; HEART RIGHT VENTRICLE; HEMODYNAMIC PARAMETERS; HUMAN; IMAGING SYSTEM; LUNG ARTERY PRESSURE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; PULMONARY HYPERTENSION; SWAN GANZ CATHETER; ULTRASOUND;

ADULT; AGED; BLOOD PRESSURE DETERMINATION; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY, DOPPLER; FEMALE; HEART VENTRICLES; HUMANS; HYPERTENSION, PULMONARY; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; VENTRICULAR DYSFUNCTION, RIGHT;

EID: 70450273154     PISSN: 08947317     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.echo.2009.09.026     Document Type: Article

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