Assessment of Right Ventricular Function in Pulmonary Hypertension

Current Hypertension Reports

Volumn 17, Issue 5, 2015, Pages

  Naeije, Robert ^a  

^a ERASME HOSPITAL   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Afterload; Arterial elastance; Echocardiography; End systolic elastance; Magnetic resonance imaging; Pulmonary hypertension; Right ventricular function; Right ventriculo arterial coupling; Time constant

Indexed keywords

DISEASE SEVERITY; DOPPLER FLOWMETRY; GOLD STANDARD; HEART AFTERLOAD; HEART CATHETERIZATION; HEART MUSCLE COMPLIANCE; HEART RIGHT VENTRICLE FAILURE; HEART RIGHT VENTRICLE FUNCTION; HUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PRESSURE MEASUREMENT; PROGNOSIS; PULMONARY HYPERTENSION; REVIEW; SYMPTOMATOLOGY; THREE DIMENSIONAL ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; ANIMAL; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; HYPERTENSION, PULMONARY; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY;

ANIMALS; CARDIAC CATHETERIZATION; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; HUMANS; HYPERTENSION, PULMONARY; PROGNOSIS; VENTRICULAR DYSFUNCTION, RIGHT; VENTRICULAR FUNCTION, RIGHT;

EID: 84926283151     PISSN: 15226417     EISSN: 15343111     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11906-015-0546-0     Document Type: Review

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