Pulmonary artery acceleration time provides an accurate estimate of systolic pulmonary arterial pressure during transthoracic echocardiography

Journal of the American Society of Echocardiography

Volumn 24, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 687-692

  Yared, Kibar ^a,b   Noseworthy, Peter ^a   Weyman, Arthur E ^a   McCabe, Elizabeth ^a   Picard, Michael H ^a   Baggish, Aaron L ^a  

^a MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

Pulmonary artery acceleration time; Pulmonary artery pressure; Right ventricular systolic pressure; Transthoracic echocardiography

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; FEMALE; HEART RIGHT VENTRICLE FUNCTION; HEART RIGHT VENTRICLE PRESSURE; HUMAN; LUNG ARTERY PRESSURE; LUNG HEMODYNAMICS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PULMONARY ARTERY ACCELERATION TIME; PULMONARY VALVE STENOSIS; PULSE WAVE; TRANSTHORACIC ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; TRICUSPID VALVE REGURGITATION;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BLOOD PRESSURE; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY, DOPPLER; FEMALE; HUMANS; LINEAR MODELS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PULMONARY ARTERY; PULMONARY WEDGE PRESSURE; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; STROKE VOLUME; TRICUSPID VALVE INSUFFICIENCY;

EID: 79956345322     PISSN: 08947317     EISSN: 10976795     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.echo.2011.03.008     Document Type: Article

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