70-year-old woman with cardiac hypertrophy and severe pulmonary hypertension: Pre- or postcapillary?;70-jährige Patientin mit Myokardhypertrophie und schwerer pulmonaler Hypertonie:Prä- oder postkapillär?

Deutsche Medizinische Wochenschrift

Volumn 136, Issue 50, 2011, Pages 2594-2598

  Dumitrescu, D ^a   Gerhardt, F ^a   Viethen, T ^a   Erdmann, E ^a   Rosenkranz, S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLOGNE   (Germany)

Author keywords

diastolic heart failure; pulmonary arterial wedge pressure; pulmonary hypertension, postcapillary

Indexed keywords

DIURETIC AGENT;

AGED; ARTICLE; BODY WEIGHT; CASE REPORT; CORONARY HEMODYNAMICS; DIASTOLIC DYSFUNCTION; DISEASE COURSE; DISEASE SEVERITY; DIURETIC THERAPY; DYSPNEA; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HEART FAILURE; HEART LEFT ATRIUM; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE ENDDIASTOLIC PRESSURE; HEART RIGHT VENTRICLE PRESSURE; HEART VENTRICLE HYPERTROPHY; HEART VENTRICLE OVERLOAD; HUMAN; LUNG CIRCULATION; MEDICAL HISTORY; PERIPHERAL EDEMA; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; PULMONARY HYPERTENSION; SYSTOLIC BLOOD PRESSURE;

AGED; BLOOD VOLUME; CARDIOMEGALY; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; DIURETICS; DYSPNEA; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; EDEMA, CARDIAC; FEMALE; HEART CATHETERIZATION; HEART FAILURE, DIASTOLIC; HEMODYNAMICS; HUMANS; HYPERTENSION, PULMONARY; PULMONARY WEDGE PRESSURE; TRICUSPID VALVE INSUFFICIENCY; VASCULAR RESISTANCE;

EID: 83455162343     PISSN: 00120472     EISSN: 14394413     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1055/s-0031-1292855     Document Type: Article

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