Pulmonary artery dilatation correlates with the risk of unexpected death in chronic arterial or thromboembolic pulmonary hypertension

Chest

Volumn 142, Issue 6, 2012, Pages 1406-1416

  Zyłkowska, Joanna ^a   Kurzyna, Marcin ^a   Florczyk, Michał ^a   Burakowska, Barbara ^b   Grzegorczyk, Franciszek ^c   Burakowski, Janusz ^b   Wieteska, Maria ^a   Oniszh, Karina ^b   Biederman, Andrzej ^d   Wawrzyńska, Liliana ^b   Szturmowicz, Monika ^b   Fijałkowska, Anna ^b   Torbicki, Adam ^a  

^a European Health Centre   (Poland)

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

^c MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF WARSAW   (Poland)

^d Szpital Praski pw Przemienienia Panskiego   (Poland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMBRISENTAN; AMINO TERMINAL PRO BRAIN NATRIURETIC PEPTIDE; BOSENTAN; ILOPROST; SILDENAFIL; SITAXSENTAN; TREPROSTINIL;

ADULT; AGE; AREA UNDER THE CURVE; ARTERY COMPRESSION; ARTERY DIAMETER; ARTERY DILATATION; ARTERY DISSECTION; ARTICLE; CAUSE OF DEATH; CHRONIC THROMBOEMBOLIC PULMONARY HYPERTENSION; COMORBIDITY; COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHIC ANGIOGRAPHY; CONGENITAL HEART DISEASE; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DISEASE DURATION; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HAZARD RATIO; HEART CATHETERIZATION; HEART FAILURE; HEART RATE; HEART TAMPONADE; HUMAN; LEFT CORONARY ARTERY; LUNG ARTERY DILATATION; LUNG ARTERY PRESSURE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; PULMONARY HYPERTENSION; PULSE PRESSURE; RECEIVER OPERATING CHARACTERISTIC; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTOR; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SUDDEN DEATH; SURVIVAL RATE; SYSTOLIC BLOOD PRESSURE;

EID: 84870626779     PISSN: 00123692     EISSN: 19313543     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1378/chest.11-2794     Document Type: Article

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