Relationship of main pulmonary artery diameter to pulmonary arterial pressure in scleroderma patients with and without interstitial fibrosis

Journal of Computer Assisted Tomography

Volumn 38, Issue 2, 2014, Pages 163-168

  Mccall, Robert K ^a   Ravenel, James G ^a   Nietert, Paul J ^a   Granath, Aleksandra ^a   Silver, Richard M ^a  

^a MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA   (United States)

Author keywords

Computed tomography; Interstitial lung disease; Pulmonary hypertension; Scleroderma

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL ORGANS; BLOOD PRESSURE; CARDIOLOGY; DIAGNOSIS; PULMONARY DISEASES;

2-GROUP; ARTERIAL PRESSURES; ARTERY PRESSURE; COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; HEART CATHETERIZATION; INTERSTITIAL LUNG DISEASE; INTERSTITIALS; PULMONARY ARTERY; PULMONARY HYPERTENSION; SCLERODERMUM;

COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY;

ADULT; ARTERY DIAMETER; ARTICLE; ASCENDING AORTA; BALLOON CATHETER; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATIONAL STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC TEST ACCURACY STUDY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; FEMALE; FIBROSING ALVEOLITIS; FORCED VITAL CAPACITY; HEART CATHETERIZATION; HUMAN; LUNG ARTERY PRESSURE; LUNG FUNCTION TEST; MAIN PULMONARY ARTERY DIAMETER; MALE; MEAN ARTERIAL PRESSURE; MEAN PULMONARY ARTERY PRESSURE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PULMONARY ARTERY; PULMONARY HYPERTENSION; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SCLERODERMA; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SWAN GANZ CATHETER;

CARDIAC CATHETERIZATION; FEMALE; HUMANS; HYPERTENSION, PULMONARY; LUNG DISEASES, INTERSTITIAL; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PULMONARY ARTERY; RADIOGRAPHY, THORACIC; RESPIRATORY FUNCTION TESTS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SCLERODERMA, SYSTEMIC; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 84897085496     PISSN: 03638715     EISSN: 15323145     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/RCT.0b013e3182aa7fc5     Document Type: Article

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