Pulmonary arterial hypertension: The key role of echocardiography

Echocardiography

Volumn 32, Issue S1, 2015, Pages 23-37

  D'Alto, Michele ^a   Romeo, Emanuele ^a   Argiento, Paola ^a   Di Salvo, Giovanni ^a   Badagliacca, Roberto ^b   Cirillo, Anna P ^c   Kaemmerer, Harald ^d   Bossone, Eduardo ^e   Naeije, Robert ^f  

^a SECOND UNIVERSITY OF NAPLES   (Italy)

^b SAPIENZA UNIVERSITY OF ROME   (Italy)

^c UNIVERSITY OF NAPLES FEDERICO II   (Italy)

^d TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^e UNIVERSITY OF SALERNO   (Italy)

^f ERASME HOSPITAL   (Belgium)

Author keywords

differential diagnosis; echocardiography; new technologies; prognosis; pulmonary hypertension; screening

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CARDIOPULMONARY HEMODYNAMICS; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; FOLLOW UP; HEART CATHETERIZATION; HEART RIGHT VENTRICLE FUNCTION; HUMAN; LUNG ARTERY PRESSURE; LUNG CIRCULATION; LUNG HEMODYNAMICS; MEASUREMENT ACCURACY; MORPHOLOGICAL TRAIT; PATIENT MONITORING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PULMONARY HYPERTENSION; RIGHT VENTRICULAR DIASTOLIC FUNCTION; RIGHT VENTRICULAR SYSTOLIC FUNCTION; THREE DIMENSIONAL ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; TISSUE DOPPLER IMAGING; ECHOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HYPERTENSION, PULMONARY; LUNG WEDGE PRESSURE; MALE; MASS SCREENING; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGIC MONITORING; PHYSIOLOGY; PROCEDURES; PROGNOSIS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX;

CARDIAC CATHETERIZATION; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; HYPERTENSION, PULMONARY; MALE; MASS SCREENING; MONITORING, PHYSIOLOGIC; PROGNOSIS; PULMONARY CIRCULATION; PULMONARY WEDGE PRESSURE; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; VENTRICULAR DYSFUNCTION, RIGHT; VENTRICULAR FUNCTION, RIGHT;

EID: 84921681228     PISSN: 07422822     EISSN: 15408175     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/echo.12283     Document Type: Article

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