Characterization of pulmonary hypertension in heart failure using the diastolic pressure gradient. The conundrum of high and low diastolic pulmonary gradient

JACC: Heart Failure

Volumn 3, Issue 5, 2015, Pages 424-425

  Gerges, Christian ^a   Gerges, Mario ^a   Lang, Irene M ^a  

^a MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

AGE; CARDIOVASCULAR MORTALITY; CREATININE CLEARANCE; DIASTOLIC BLOOD PRESSURE; GENDER; HEART FAILURE; HEART MUSCLE ISCHEMIA; HEART RATE; HUMAN; LETTER; LUNG COMPLIANCE; LUNG VASCULAR RESISTANCE; PREDICTIVE VALUE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; PULMONARY HYPERTENSION; 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: 84929466291     PISSN: 22131779     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jchf.2014.12.015     Document Type: Letter

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