Detection of right ventricular dysfunction by tissue Doppler imaging in asymptomatic patients with pulmonary sarcoidosis

European Respiratory Journal

Volumn 37, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 212-215

  Gialafos, E ^a   Rapti, A ^b   Kouranos, V ^b   Aggeli, K ^a   Papaioannou, T G ^a   Kallianos, A ^b   Siasos, G ^a   Kostopoulos, C ^b   Stefanadis, C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Greece)

^b IASO GENERAL HOSPITAL   (Greece)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARBON MONOXIDE; CORTISONE;

A WAVE; ADULT; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORTICOSTEROID THERAPY; DIASTOLE; DIASTOLIC BLOOD PRESSURE; FEMALE; HEART RATE; HEART RIGHT VENTRICLE FAILURE; HEART RIGHT VENTRICULAR DYSFUNCTION; HEART VENTRICLE WALL; HUMAN; LETTER; LUNG DIFFUSION CAPACITY; LUNG FUNCTION TEST; LUNG SARCOIDOSIS; MALE; OBSERVATIONAL STUDY; OUTPATIENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TISSUE DOPPLER IMAGING;

ADULT; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; CORTISONE; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; SARCOIDOSIS, PULMONARY; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, DOPPLER; VENTRICULAR DYSFUNCTION, RIGHT;

EID: 79251588028     PISSN: 09031936     EISSN: 13993003     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1183/09031936.00065210     Document Type: Letter

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