Interobserver reliability of echocardiography for prognostication of normotensive patients with pulmonary embolism

Cardiovascular Ultrasound

Volumn 12, Issue 1, 2014, Pages

  Kopecna, Dita ^a   Briongos, Sem ^b   Castillo, Hugo ^b   Moreno, Carlos ^b   Recio, Mónica ^b   Navas, Paula ^b   Lobo, José Luis ^c   Alonso Gomez, Angel ^c   Obieta Fresnedo, Izaskun ^c   Fernández Golfin, Covadonga ^b   Zamorano, José Luis ^b   Jiménez, David ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALCALÁ   (Spain)

^b HOSPITAL RAMÓN Y CAJAL   (Spain)

^c HOSPITAL TXAGORRITXU   (Spain)

Author keywords

Echocardiography; Interobserver reliability; Prognosis; Pulmonary embolism; Reproducibility

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CARDIOLOGIST; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE; HEART RIGHT VENTRICLE; HEART RIGHT VENTRICLE HYPERTROPHY; HEART VENTRICLE SIZE; HUMAN; HYPOKINESIA; LUNG EMBOLISM; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MULTICENTER STUDY (TOPIC); PROGNOSIS; RELIABILITY; TRANSTHORACIC ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; CLINICAL TRIAL; COHORT ANALYSIS; COMPLICATION; ECHOGRAPHY; ETIOLOGY; HEART RIGHT VENTRICLE FUNCTION; HEART STROKE VOLUME; HYPERTENSION; MIDDLE AGED; MULTICENTER STUDY; OBSERVER VARIATION; PROCEDURES; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; RADIOGRAPHY; REPRODUCIBILITY; RISK ASSESSMENT; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SPAIN;

AGED; COHORT STUDIES; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMANS; HYPERTENSION; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OBSERVER VARIATION; PROGNOSIS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; PULMONARY EMBOLISM; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; RISK ASSESSMENT; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SPAIN; STROKE VOLUME; VENTRICULAR DYSFUNCTION, RIGHT;

EID: 84906572935     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14767120     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1476-7120-12-29     Document Type: Article

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