Measurement to predict survival: The case of diastolic pulmonary gradient

JACC: Heart Failure

Volumn 3, Issue 5, 2015, Pages 425-427

  Naeije, Robert ^a  

^a ERASME HOSPITAL   (Belgium)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DIASTOLIC BLOOD PRESSURE; DIASTOLIC PRESSURE GRADIENT; HEART FAILURE; HUMAN; LETTER; LUNG PRESSURE; LUNG VASCULAR RESISTANCE; MEASUREMENT PRECISION; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PULMONARY HYPERTENSION; PULMONARY VASCULAR DISEASE; RISK FACTOR; SURVIVAL PREDICTION; TRANSPULMONARY PRESSURE GRADIENT; COMPLICATION; FEMALE; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE FUNCTION; LUNG WEDGE PRESSURE; MALE; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; VASCULAR RESISTANCE;

FEMALE; HUMANS; HYPERTENSION, PULMONARY; MALE; PULMONARY WEDGE PRESSURE; VASCULAR RESISTANCE; VENTRICULAR DYSFUNCTION, LEFT;

EID: 84929465937     PISSN: 22131779     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jchf.2014.12.014     Document Type: Letter

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