Validation of a Cutoff Value on Echo Doppler Analysis to Replace Right Heart Catheterization During Pulmonary Hypertension Evaluation in Heart Transplant Candidates

Transplantation Proceedings

Volumn 42, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 535-538

  Bacal, F ^a   de Freitas Jr , A F ^a   Moreira, L F ^a   Fiorelli, A I ^a   Mangini, S ^a   Abuhab, A ^a   de Lima Oliveira Jr , J ^a   Santos, R H B ^a   Stolf, N A G ^a   Bocchi, E A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CARDIOVASCULAR PARAMETERS; CHILD; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; CORRELATION COEFFICIENT; DOPPLER ECHOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HEART CATHETERIZATION; HEART EJECTION FRACTION; HEART GRAFT; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE FAILURE; HEART RIGHT VENTRICLE PRESSURE; HEART TRANSPLANTATION; HEMODYNAMIC PARAMETERS; HUMAN; LUNG ARTERY PRESSURE; LUNG VASCULAR RESISTANCE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PULMONARY HYPERTENSION; RECEIVER OPERATING CHARACTERISTIC; SCHOOL CHILD; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SWAN GANZ CATHETER; SYSTOLIC BLOOD PRESSURE; TRICUSPID VALVE REGURGITATION;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; BLOOD PRESSURE; CHILD; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; ENDOSONOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HEART CATHETERIZATION; HEART TRANSPLANTATION; HEART VENTRICLES; HEMODYNAMICS; HUMANS; HYPERTENSION, PULMONARY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; STROKE VOLUME; SYSTOLE; TRICUSPID VALVE INSUFFICIENCY; VASCULAR RESISTANCE;

EID: 77949444078     PISSN: 00411345     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.transproceed.2010.01.002     Document Type: Article

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