Intrapulmonary shunting associated with sildenafil treatment in a patient with idiopathic pulmonary arterial hypertension

Thorax

Volumn 66, Issue 12, 2011, Pages 1097-1098

  Castro, Pablo F ^a   Greig, Douglas ^a   Verdejo, Hugo E ^a   Godoy, Iván ^a   Córdova, Samuel ^a   Ferrada, Marcela P ^a   Bourge, Robert C ^b  

^a PONTIFICIA UNIVERSIDAD CATÓLICA DE CHILE   (Chile)

^b University of Alabama at Birmingham and Birmingham Veterans Affairs Medical Center   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DIURETIC AGENT; ILOPROST; OXYGEN; SILDENAFIL;

ADULT; ARTERIAL OXYGEN TENSION; CASE REPORT; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DRUG WITHDRAWAL; FOLLOW UP; HEART INDEX; HEART RIGHT VENTRICLE FAILURE; HISPANIC; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HOSPITAL DISCHARGE; HUMAN; IDIOPATHIC DISEASE; LETTER; LUNG ARTERY PRESSURE; LUNG EMBOLISM; LUNG VASCULAR RESISTANCE; MALE; PATIENT REFERRAL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PULMONARY ARTERY OCCLUSION PRESSURE; PULMONARY HYPERTENSION; PULMONARY SHUNT; SALINE CONTRAST TRANSTHORACIC ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; SIDE EFFECT; TRANSTHORACIC ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY;

EID: 81555195680     PISSN: 00406376     EISSN: 14683296     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/thx.2010.156711     Document Type: Letter

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