Usefulness of echocardiography in the identification of an excessive increase in pulmonary arterial pressure in patients with systemic sclerosis

Kardiologia Polska

Volumn 69, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 9-15

  Ciurzyński, Michał ^a   Bienias, Piotr ^a   Irzyk, Katarzyna ^a   Rymarczyk, Zuzanna ^a   Kostrubiec, Maciej ^a   Szewczyk, Agnieszka ^a   Glińska Wielochowska, Maria ^a   Zyłkowska, Joanna ^b   Kurzyna, Marcin ^b   Pruszczyk, Piotr ^a  

^a MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF WARSAW   (Poland)

^b NATIONAL TUBERCULOSIS AND LUNG DISEASES RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Poland)

Author keywords

Connective tissue diseases; Echocardiography; Pulmonary hypertension; Systemic sclerosis

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; DIASTOLIC BLOOD PRESSURE; DISEASE DURATION; DISEASE SEVERITY; EXERCISE TEST; FEMALE; FORCED EXPIRATORY VOLUME; FORCED VITAL CAPACITY; HEART CATHETERIZATION; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE EJECTION FRACTION; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE ENDDIASTOLIC VOLUME; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE FUNCTION; HEART RATE; HEART VENTRICLE PRESSURE; HUMAN; LUNG ARTERY PRESSURE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PULMONARY ARTERY OCCLUSION PRESSURE; PULMONARY HYPERTENSION; SYSTEMIC SCLEROSIS; SYSTOLIC BLOOD PRESSURE; TRANSTHORACIC ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; TREADMILL EXERCISE; TRICUSPID REGURGITATION PEAK GRADIENT; TRICUSPID VALVE REGURGITATION;

EID: 79952232936     PISSN: 00229032     EISSN: 00229032     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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