Pulmonary hypertension leads to a loss of gravity dependent redistribution of regional lung perfusion: A SPECT/CT study

Heart

Volumn 100, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 47-53

  Lau, Edmund M T ^a,b   Bailey, Dale L ^a,c   Bailey, Elizabeth A ^c   Torzillo, Paul J ^a,b   Roach, Paul J ^a,c   Schembri, Geoffrey P ^a,c   Corte, Tamera J ^a,b   Celermajer, David S ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

^b ROYAL PRINCE ALFRED HOSPITAL   (Australia)

^c ROYAL NORTH SHORE HOSPITAL   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

TECHNEGAS;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BODY POSTURE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DISEASE SEVERITY; FEMALE; HUMAN; LUNG CIRCULATION; LUNG PERFUSION; MALE; PATIENT ASSESSMENT; PERFUSION REDISTRIBUTION INDEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; PULMONARY HYPERTENSION; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; RESPIRATORY TRACT PARAMETERS; SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTER TOMOGRAPHY; SUPINE POSITION; SYSTOLE;

FEMALE; GRAVITATION; HUMANS; HYPERTENSION, PULMONARY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; POSTURE; PULMONARY CIRCULATION; ROC CURVE; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; TOMOGRAPHY, EMISSION-COMPUTED, SINGLE-PHOTON; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 84891836659     PISSN: 13556037     EISSN: 1468201X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/heartjnl-2013-304254     Document Type: Article

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