Pleural effusions occurring with right heart failure

Current Opinion in Pulmonary Medicine

Volumn 17, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 226-231

  Brixey, Anupama G ^a   Light, Richard W ^a  

^a VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

pleural effusions; pulmonary arterial hypertension; right heart failure

Indexed keywords

AMINO TERMINAL PRO BRAIN NATRIURETIC PEPTIDE; BRAIN NATRIURETIC PEPTIDE;

ASCITES; AUTOPSY; CENTRAL VENOUS PRESSURE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DEATH; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DISEASE DURATION; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; FAMILIAL DISEASE; FOLLOW UP; HEART CATHETERIZATION; HEART RIGHT ATRIUM PRESSURE; HEART RIGHT VENTRICLE FAILURE; HUMAN; HYDROSTATIC PRESSURE; IDIOPATHIC DISEASE; INFERIOR CAVA VEIN; LUNG ARTERY PRESSURE; LUNG VASCULAR RESISTANCE; LUNG WEDGE PRESSURE; MIXED CONNECTIVE TISSUE DISEASE; MORTALITY; NONHUMAN; PERICARDIAL EFFUSION; PLEURA EFFUSION; PLEURA FLUID; POLYMYOSITIS; PORTOPULMONARY HYPERTENSION; PROTEIN BLOOD LEVEL; PULMONARY HYPERTENSION; REVIEW; RHEUMATOID ARTHRITIS; SCLERODERMA; SJOEGREN SYNDROME; SUPERIOR CAVA VEIN; SYSTEMIC LUPUS ERYTHEMATOSUS; THORACOCENTESIS; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY; VIRUS HEPATITIS;

HEART FAILURE; HUMANS; HYPERTENSION, PULMONARY; PLEURAL EFFUSION;

EID: 79958796612     PISSN: 10705287     EISSN: 15316971     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/MCP.0b013e32834702fb     Document Type: Review

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