Optical coherence tomography is superior to intravascular ultrasound for diagnosis of distal-type chronic thromboembolic pulmonary hypertension

Circulation Journal

Volumn 77, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 1081-1083

  Tatebe, Shunsuke ^a   Fukumoto, Yoshihiro ^a   Sugimura, Koichiro ^a   Miura, Yutaka ^a   Nochioka, Kotaro ^a   Aoki, Tatsuo ^a   Miura, Masanobu ^a   Yamamoto, Saori ^a   Yaoita, Nobuhiro ^a   Satoh, Kimio ^a   Shimokawa, Hiroaki ^a  

^a TOHOKU UNIVERSITY GRADUATE SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CHRONIC THROMBOEMBOLIC PULMONARY HYPERTENSION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; FEMALE; INTRAVASCULAR ULTRASOUND; MALE; OPTICAL COHERENCE TOMOGRAPHY; PERCUTANEOUS TRANSLUMINAL ANGIOPLASTY; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; THROMBOEMBOLISM; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

AGED; CHRONIC DISEASE; FEMALE; HUMANS; HYPERTENSION, PULMONARY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; PULMONARY EMBOLISM; TOMOGRAPHY, OPTICAL COHERENCE; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, INTERVENTIONAL;

EID: 84875491676     PISSN: 13469843     EISSN: 13474820     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1253/circj.CJ-12-1493     Document Type: Article

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