Right ventricular ejection fraction during exercise as a predictor of mortality in patients awaiting lung transplantation: A cohort study

BMJ Open

Volumn 3, Issue 4, 2013, Pages

  Selimovic, Nedim ^a   Andersson, Bert ^a   Bech Hanssen, Odd ^a   Lomsky, Milan ^a   Riise, Gerdt C ^a   Rundqvist, Bengt ^a  

^a SAHLGRENSKA UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CHRONIC OBSTRUCTIVE LUNG DISEASE; CYSTIC FIBROSIS; EXERCISE; FEMALE; FORCED VITAL CAPACITY; GAS EXCHANGE; HEART RIGHT VENTRICLE EJECTION FRACTION; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HUMAN; INTERSTITIAL LUNG DISEASE; LUNG FUNCTION; LUNG HEMODYNAMICS; LUNG TRANSPLANTATION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORTALITY; PULMONARY HYPERTENSION; REST; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SCINTIANGIOGRAPHY;

EID: 84877637958     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20446055     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/bmjopen-2012-002108     Document Type: Article

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