Pulmonary artery diastolic pressure gradient as an indicator of severity of illness in patients with pulmonary hypertension related to left-sided heart disease

Therapeutic Advances in Respiratory Disease

Volumn 9, Issue 2, 2015, Pages 35-41

  Howard, Christopher ^a   Rangajhavala, Kapil ^a   Safdar, Zeenat ^a  

^a BAYLOR COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

diastolic pulmonary gradient; pulmonary hypertension left sided heart disease; transpulmonary gradient

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CLINICAL INDICATOR; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIASTOLIC BLOOD PRESSURE; DIASTOLIC PULMONARY GRADIENT; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DISEASE SEVERITY; FEMALE; HEART CATHETERIZATION; HEART DISEASE; HEART INDEX; HEART OUTPUT; HEART RIGHT ATRIUM PRESSURE; HUMAN; LEFT SIDED HEART DISEASE; LUNG ARTERY PRESSURE; LUNG BLOOD FLOW; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; PULMONARY HYPERTENSION; RESPIRATORY TRACT PARAMETERS; TRANSPULMONARY GRADIENT; AGED; ARTERIAL PRESSURE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; COMPLICATION; DIASTOLE; EXERCISE TEST; EXERCISE TOLERANCE; HEALTH STATUS; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE FUNCTION; HEART VENTRICLE PRESSURE; HYPERTENSION, PULMONARY; MIDDLE AGED; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PREDICTIVE VALUE; PULMONARY ARTERY; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; TIME; VASCULAR REMODELING;

ADULT; AGED; ARTERIAL PRESSURE; CARDIAC CATHETERIZATION; DIASTOLE; EXERCISE TEST; EXERCISE TOLERANCE; FEMALE; HEALTH STATUS; HUMANS; HYPERTENSION, PULMONARY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; PULMONARY ARTERY; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; TIME FACTORS; VASCULAR REMODELING; VENTRICULAR DYSFUNCTION, LEFT; VENTRICULAR FUNCTION, LEFT; VENTRICULAR PRESSURE;

EID: 84925871853     PISSN: 17534658     EISSN: 17534666     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1753465815573373     Document Type: Article

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