Bedside cardiac testing in acute cor pulmonale

BMJ Case Reports

Volumn , Issue , 2014, Pages

  Ali, Omair M ^a   Masood, Abdul Mannan ^b   Siddiqui, Faisal ^c  

^a WRIGHT STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b GSH   (United States)

^c ATLANTA MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTICOAGULANT AGENT; FIBRINOLYTIC AGENT;

AGED; ANAMNESIS; ANTICOAGULATION; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; COR PULMONALE; DIAPHORESIS; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; DISEASE SEVERITY; DIZZINESS; DOPPLER ECHOGRAPHY; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; FIBRINOLYTIC THERAPY; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; LUNG EMBOLISM; MALE; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; Q WAVE; SINUS TACHYCARDIA; T WAVE;

EID: 84903145978     PISSN: None     EISSN: 1757790X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/bcr-2013-200940     Document Type: Article

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