Echocardiography can identify patients with increased pulmonary vascular resistance by assessing pressure reflection in the pulmonary circulation

Circulation: Cardiovascular Imaging

Volumn 3, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 424-432

  Bech Hanssen, Odd ^a   Lindgren, Fredrik ^a   Selimovic, Nedim ^a   Rundqvist, Bengt ^a  

^a SAHLGRENSKA UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Echocardiography; Pulmonary hypertension; Pulmonary vascular resistance

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOPPLER ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; FLOW RATE; HEART CATHETERIZATION; HEART RHYTHM; HEMODYNAMIC MONITORING; HUMAN; LUNG CIRCULATION; LUNG VASCULAR RESISTANCE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PATIENT IDENTIFICATION; PRESSURE GRADIENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PULMONARY ARTERY OCCLUSION PRESSURE; PULMONARY HYPERTENSION; RECEIVER OPERATING CHARACTERISTIC; TRICUSPID VALVE REGURGITATION; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; CASE CONTROL STUDY; ECHOGRAPHY; HEMODYNAMICS; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; NONPARAMETRIC TEST; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; VASCULAR RESISTANCE;

ADULT; AGED; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY, DOPPLER; FEMALE; HEMODYNAMICS; HUMANS; HYPERTENSION, PULMONARY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; ROC CURVE; STATISTICS, NONPARAMETRIC; TRICUSPID VALVE INSUFFICIENCY; VASCULAR RESISTANCE;

EID: 77955482445     PISSN: 19419651     EISSN: 19420080     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1161/CIRCIMAGING.109.913467     Document Type: Article

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