Left ventricular dysfunction with pulmonary hypertension part 1: Epidemiology, pathophysiology, and definitions

Circulation: Heart Failure

Volumn 6, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 344-354

  Georgiopoulou, Vasiliki V ^a   Kalogeropoulos, Andreas P ^a   Borlaug, Barry A ^b   Gheorghiade, Mihai ^c   Butler, Javed ^a  

^a EMORY UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b MAYO CLINIC   (United States)

^c NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ENDOTHELIN 1;

ACUTE HEART FAILURE; AGE DISTRIBUTION; ARTICLE; CARDIOPULMONARY HEMODYNAMICS; DIASTOLIC DYSFUNCTION; DISEASE SEVERITY; DOPPLER ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; EXERCISE; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE ENDDIASTOLIC PRESSURE; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE FAILURE; HEART OUTPUT; HEART TRANSPLANTATION; HUMAN; HYDROSTATIC PRESSURE; LUNG ARTERY PRESSURE; LUNG VASCULAR RESISTANCE; MITRAL VALVE REGURGITATION; MITRAL VALVE REPAIR; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; PULMONARY ARTERY OCCLUSION PRESSURE; PULMONARY HYPERTENSION; SYSTOLIC BLOOD PRESSURE; VALVULAR HEART DISEASE; ARTERIAL PRESSURE; CLASSIFICATION; HEART FAILURE; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE FUNCTION; HEART STROKE VOLUME; NOMENCLATURE; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PULMONARY ARTERY; REVIEW; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX;

ARTERIAL PRESSURE; HEART FAILURE; HUMANS; HYPERTENSION, PULMONARY; PROGNOSIS; PULMONARY ARTERY; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; STROKE VOLUME; TERMINOLOGY AS TOPIC; VENTRICULAR DYSFUNCTION, LEFT; VENTRICULAR FUNCTION, LEFT;

MLCS; MLOWN;

EID: 84877254940     PISSN: 19413289     EISSN: 19413297     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1161/CIRCHEARTFAILURE.112.000095     Document Type: Article

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