Right ventricular enlargement in acute pulmonary embolism derived from CT pulmonary angiography

International Journal of Cardiovascular Imaging

Volumn 29, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 705-708

  Kumamaru, Kanako K ^a   Lu, Michael T ^b   Ghaderi Niri, Sanaz ^a   Hunsaker, Andetta R ^a  

^a BRIGHAM AND WOMEN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACUTE DISEASE; ARTICLE; ARTIFACT; CARDIAC GATED IMAGING; COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHIC ANGIOGRAPHY; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DISEASE MARKER; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; EVIDENCE BASED MEDICINE; HEART RIGHT VENTRICLE HYPERTROPHY; HEART RIGHT VENTRICLE OVERLOAD; HEART VENTRICLE SIZE; HIGH RISK PATIENT; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE QUALITY; LUNG ANGIOGRAPHY; LUNG EMBOLISM; MORBIDITY; MORTALITY; PATIENT IDENTIFICATION; PROGNOSIS; RISK ASSESSMENT; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

HEART VENTRICLES; HEMODYNAMICS; HUMANS; HYPERTROPHY, RIGHT VENTRICULAR; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; PULMONARY EMBOLISM; RADIOGRAPHIC IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; STROKE VOLUME; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; VENTRICULAR DYSFUNCTION, RIGHT; VENTRICULAR FUNCTION, RIGHT;

EID: 84879526770     PISSN: 15695794     EISSN: 15730743     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10554-012-0126-1     Document Type: Article

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