Right atrial to left atrial area ratio on early echocardiography predicts long-term survival after acute pulmonary embolism

Cardiovascular Ultrasound

Volumn 11, Issue 1, 2013, Pages

  Chow, Vincent ^a   Ng, Austin Chin Chwan ^a   Chung, Tommy ^a   Thomas, Liza ^b   Kritharides, Leonard ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BRAIN NATRIURETIC PEPTIDE; C REACTIVE PROTEIN; D DIMER; TROPONIN T;

ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; ARTICLE; CEREBROVASCULAR ACCIDENT; CHARLSON COMORBIDITY INDEX; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COHORT ANALYSIS; COMORBIDITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIABETES MELLITUS; DIAGNOSTIC TEST ACCURACY STUDY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DISEASE SEVERITY; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HEART ATRIUM FIBRILLATION; HEART FAILURE; HEART LEFT ATRIUM; HEART RIGHT ATRIUM; HUMAN; HYPERCHOLESTEROLEMIA; INDEPENDENT VARIABLE; ISCHEMIC HEART DISEASE; KAPLAN MEIER METHOD; LONG TERM CARE; LONG TERM SURVIVAL; LUNG ARTERY PRESSURE; LUNG EMBOLISM; LUNG SCINTISCANNING; LUNG VENTILATION PERFUSION RATIO; MALE; MORTALITY; NEOPLASM; PROGNOSIS; PULMONARY EMBOLISM SEVERITY SCORE; SCORING SYSTEM; SURVIVOR; SYSTOLIC BLOOD PRESSURE; TRANSTHORACIC ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY;

ACUTE DISEASE; AGED; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HEART ATRIA; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; MALE; NEW SOUTH WALES; PROGNOSIS; PULMONARY EMBOLISM; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; RISK FACTORS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS; SURVIVAL RATE; SURVIVORS;

EID: 84878377577     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14767120     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1476-7120-11-17     Document Type: Article

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