Diagnostic usefulness of pocket echography performed in hypertensive patients by a general practitioner;Utilidad diagnóstica de la ecografía de bolsillo practicada por un médico de familia en una población hipertensa

Medicina Clinica

Volumn 141, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 1-7

  Evangelista, Lidia ^a   Juncadella, Enric ^a   Copetti, Silvia ^a   Pareja, Aïda ^a   Torrabadella, Jordi ^b   Evangelista, Arturo ^c  

^a HOSPITAL UNIVERSITARI DE BELLVITGE   (Spain)

^b L'Hospitalet de Llobregat   (Spain)

^c HOSPITAL UNIVERSITARI VALL D HEBRON   (Spain)

Author keywords

Arterial hypertension; Hand pocket echography; Primary care

Indexed keywords

AORTA VALVE DISEASE; AORTA VALVE REGURGITATION; ARTICLE; ASCENDING AORTA; CALCIFICATION; CLINICAL ASSESSMENT; ECHOCARDIOGRAPH; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; GENERAL PRACTITIONER; HEART LEFT ATRIUM; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE; HEART VENTRICLE SEPTUM; HEART VENTRICLE WALL; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MITRAL VALVE CALCIFICATION; MITRAL VALVE REGURGITATION; POCKET ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; PORTABLE EQUIPMENT; SCLEROSIS; VALVULAR HEART DISEASE;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANTIHYPERTENSIVE AGENTS; AORTA; COMORBIDITY; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; DIABETES MELLITUS; DYSLIPIDEMIAS; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY, DOPPLER, COLOR; FEMALE; GENERAL PRACTICE; HEART DISEASES; HUMANS; HYPERTENSION; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MINIATURIZATION; OVERWEIGHT; RISK FACTORS; SAMPLING STUDIES; SINGLE-BLIND METHOD; SMOKING; STROKE VOLUME;

EID: 84879315480     PISSN: 00257753     EISSN: 15788989     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.medcli.2012.10.029     Document Type: Article

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