Pediatrics: Prognostic significance of 2-dimensional, m-mode, and doppler echo indices of right ventricular function in children with pulmonary arterial hypertension

American Heart Journal

Volumn 165, Issue 6, 2013, Pages 1024-1031

  Kassem, Eias ^a   Humpl, Tilman ^a   Friedberg, Mark K ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^b HOSPITAL FOR SICK CHILDREN   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AREA UNDER THE CURVE; ARTICLE; CATHETERIZATION; CHILD; CHILDHOOD DISEASE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL STUDY; CONGENITAL HEART DISEASE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DOPPLER ECHOGRAPHY; ECHOCARDIOGRAPH; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE; HEART VENTRICLE FUNCTION; HEART VOLUME; HUMAN; LUNG HEMODYNAMICS; LUNG TRANSPLANTATION; M MODE ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; PULMONARY HYPERTENSION; RECEIVER OPERATING CHARACTERISTIC; SCHOOL CHILD; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SURVIVAL RATE; SURVIVOR; TRICUSPID VALVE; TWO DIMENSIONAL ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; WALKING; ADOLESCENT; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DOPPLER ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; ECHOGRAPHY; HEART RIGHT VENTRICLE FUNCTION; HEART VENTRICLE; INFANT; METHODOLOGY; NEWBORN; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; PRESCHOOL CHILD; REPRODUCIBILITY; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY;

ADOLESCENT; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY, DOPPLER; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HEART VENTRICLES; HUMANS; HYPERTENSION, PULMONARY; INFANT; INFANT, NEWBORN; MALE; PROGNOSIS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; VENTRICULAR FUNCTION, RIGHT;

MLCS; MLOWN;

EID: 84880049024     PISSN: 00028703     EISSN: 10976744     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ahj.2013.02.027     Document Type: Article

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