Volumetric Analysis of Pulmonary CTA for the Assessment of Right Ventricular Dysfunction in Patients with Acute Pulmonary Embolism

Academic Radiology

Volumn 17, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 309-315

  Henzler, Thomas ^a   Krissak, Radko ^a   Reichert, Miriam ^a   Sueselbeck, Tim ^a   Schoenberg, Stefan O ^a   Fink, Christian ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Pulmonary embolism; right ventricular dysfunction; volumetric analysis

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHIC ANGIOGRAPHY; DISEASE PREDISPOSITION; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; HEART RIGHT VENTRICLE FAILURE; HEART RIGHT VENTRICLE FUNCTION; HEART VENTRICLE SIZE; HEART VENTRICLE VOLUME; HUMAN; LUNG EMBOLISM; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION DOSE;

ACUTE DISEASE; ANGIOGRAPHY; CARDIAC-GATED IMAGING TECHNIQUES; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PULMONARY ARTERY; PULMONARY EMBOLISM; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; VENTRICULAR DYSFUNCTION, RIGHT;

EID: 75749138513     PISSN: 10766332     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.acra.2009.10.022     Document Type: Article

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