Obtaining accurate hemodynamics from echocardiography: Achieving independence from right heart catheterization

Current Opinion in Cardiology

Volumn 25, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 437-444

  Ristow, Bryan ^a   Schiller, Nelson B ^b  

^a CALIFORNIA PACIFIC MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b USA BUniversity of California   (United States)

Author keywords

echocardiography; hemodynamics; pulmonary arterial hypertension

Indexed keywords

DOPPLER ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; HEART CATHETERIZATION; HEART HEMODYNAMICS; HEART RIGHT ATRIUM PRESSURE; HEART RIGHT VENTRICLE FUNCTION; HEART VENTRICLE FUNCTION; HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PULMONARY VALVE INSUFFICIENCY; REVIEW; STROKE; THREE DIMENSIONAL ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; TRICUSPID VALVE REGURGITATION; BLOOD PRESSURE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; HEART; HEMODYNAMICS; PHYSIOLOGY; PROCEDURES; PULMONARY ARTERY;

BLOOD PRESSURE; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY, DOPPLER; HEART; HEART CATHETERIZATION; HEMODYNAMICS; HUMANS; PULMONARY ARTERY; CARDIAC CATHETERIZATION;

EID: 77955470615     PISSN: 02684705     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/HCO.0b013e32833b2842     Document Type: Review

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