A critical appraisal of transpulmonary and diastolic pressure gradients

Physiological Reports

Volumn 4, Issue 17, 2016, Pages

  Handoko, M Louis ^a   De Man, Frances S ^a   Oosterveer, Frank P T ^a   Bogaard, Harm Jan ^a   Vonk Noordegraaf, Anton ^a   Westerhof, Nico ^a  

^a VU UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Cardiac output; heart failure; physiology; pulmonary hypertension; pulmonary wedge pressure

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; BLOOD PRESSURE; COMPLICATION; DIASTOLE; FEMALE; HEART CATHETERIZATION; HEART FAILURE; HEART OUTPUT; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION, PULMONARY; LUNG WEDGE PRESSURE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; PROCEDURES; PULMONARY ARTERY; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; VASCULAR RESISTANCE; YOUNG ADULT;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; BLOOD PRESSURE; CARDIAC CATHETERIZATION; CARDIAC OUTPUT; DIASTOLE; FEMALE; HEART FAILURE; HUMANS; HYPERTENSION, PULMONARY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PULMONARY ARTERY; PULMONARY WEDGE PRESSURE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; VASCULAR RESISTANCE; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84987899425     PISSN: None     EISSN: 2051817X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.14814/phy2.12910     Document Type: Article

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