Dynamic and pharmacologic right heart stress echocardiography: Right ventricular function, right coronary artery flow, pulmonary pressure, and alveolar-capillary membrane testing in the echocardiography laboratory

Stress Echocardiography: Fifth, Completely Revised and Updated Edition

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 105-123

  Picano, Eugenio ^e   Grünig, Ekkehard ^a   Román, Alberto San ^b   Damon, Kwan ^c   Schiller, Nelson B ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

^b HOSPITAL CLÍNICO UNIVERSITARIO DE VALLADOLID   (Spain)

^c University of Ulsan College of Medicine   (South Korea)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^e INSTITUTE OF CLINICAL PHYSIOLOGY   (Italy)

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EID: 84889876212     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-540-76466-3_8     Document Type: Chapter

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