Enhancing the accuracy of echocardiography in the diagnosis of pulmonary arterial hypertension: Looking at the heart to learn about the lungs

Current Opinion in Pulmonary Medicine

Volumn 19, Issue 5, 2013, Pages 437-445

  Mazurek, Jeremy A ^a   Forfia, Paul R ^b  

^a HOSPITAL OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^b TEMPLE UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

Doppler; Echocardiography; Pulmonary hypertension; Right ventricular function

Indexed keywords

CHRONIC THROMBOEMBOLIC PULMONARY HYPERTENSION; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DOPPLER ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; HEART CATHETERIZATION; HEART RIGHT VENTRICLE FUNCTION; HUMAN; LUNG HEMODYNAMICS; PULMONARY HYPERTENSION; PULMONARY VASCULAR DISEASE; REVIEW; TWO DIMENSIONAL ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY;

ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY, DOPPLER; HEMODYNAMICS; HUMANS; HYPERTENSION, PULMONARY; LUNG; PULMONARY ARTERY; VENTRICULAR DYSFUNCTION, RIGHT;

EID: 84881662335     PISSN: 10705287     EISSN: 15316971     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/MCP.0b013e3283645966     Document Type: Review

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