How to define pulmonary hypertension due to left heart disease

European Respiratory Journal

Volumn 48, Issue 2, 2016, Pages 553-554

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

^a UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BLOOD PRESSURE MEASUREMENT; BLOOD VESSEL COMPLIANCE; BLOOD VESSEL REACTIVITY; DIASTOLIC BLOOD PRESSURE; DISEASE CLASSIFICATION; HEART AFTERLOAD; HEART DISEASE; HEART FAILURE; HEART RIGHT VENTRICLE PRESSURE; HUMAN; LETTER; LUNG CAPILLARY PRESSURE; LUNG VASCULAR RESISTANCE; LUNG WEDGE PRESSURE; MEAN ARTERIAL PRESSURE; MEDICAL SOCIETY; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PRESSURE GRADIENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; PULMONARY HYPERTENSION; SYSTOLIC BLOOD PRESSURE; VALVULAR HEART DISEASE; COMPLICATION; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY;

HEART DISEASES; HUMANS; HYPERTENSION, PULMONARY;

EID: 84979986558     PISSN: 09031936     EISSN: 13993003     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1183/13993003.00432-2016     Document Type: Letter

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