Echocardiographic alterations suggestive of pulmonary hypertension in the Italian ultrasonography laboratories. Epidemiological data from the INCIPIT study (INCidence of Pulmonary Hypertension in Italian ulTrasonography laboratories);Alterazioni ecocardiografiche suggestive di ipertensione polmonare nei laboratori italiani di ultrasonografia. Dati epidemiologici dallo studio INCIPIT (INCidenza di Ipertensione Polmonare nei laboratori Italiani di ulTrasonografia)

Giornale Italiano di Cardiologia

Volumn 11, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 402-407

  Enea, Iolanda ^a   Ghio, Stefano ^b   Bongarzoni, Amedeo ^c   Casazza, Franco ^c   D'Armini, Andrea Maria ^b   Favretto, Giuseppe ^d   Roncon, Loris ^e   Rubboli, Andrea ^f   Serafini, Oscar ^g   Zonzin, Pietro ^e   D'Agostino, Carlo ^h  

^a S Anna S Sebastiano Hospital   (Italy)

^b FONDAZIONE IRCCS POLICLINICO SAN MATTEO   (Italy)

^c SAN CARLO BORROMEO HOSPITAL   (Italy)

^d Ospedale Riabilitativo   (Italy)

^e UOC di Cardiologia   (Italy)

^f MAGGIORE HOSPITAL   (Italy)

^g Ospedale Annunziata   (Italy)

^h DI VENERE HOSPITAL   (Italy)

Author keywords

Echocardiography; Pulmonary circulation; Pulmonary hypertension; Screening

Indexed keywords

AGED; ARTICLE; ASTHENIA; BODY MASS; DYSPNEA; ECHOGRAPHY; ELECTRONIC MEDICAL RECORD; FEMALE; FLOW RATE; HEART DISEASE; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; LIVER DISEASE; LUNG DISEASE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PULMONARY HYPERTENSION; PULMONARY VALVE INSUFFICIENCY; THORAX PAIN; TRICUSPID VALVE REGURGITATION; CLINICAL TRIAL; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; HYPERTENSION, PULMONARY; ITALY; MULTICENTER STUDY;

AGED; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMANS; HYPERTENSION, PULMONARY; ITALY; MALE;

EID: 77952380529     PISSN: 18276806     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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