The resistance-compliance product of the pulmonary circulation varies in health and pulmonary vascular disease

Physiological Reports

Volumn 3, Issue 4, 2015, Pages

  Hadinnapola, Charaka ^a   Li, Qiuju ^b   Su, Li ^b   Pepke Zaba, Joanna ^a   Toshner, Mark ^a  

^a PAPWORTH HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Pulmonary arterial hypertension; Pulmonary artery compliance; RC time

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIASTOLIC PULMONARY ARTERY PRESSURE; HEART CATHETERIZATION; HEART OUTPUT; HEART RATE; HEART RIGHT VENTRICLE; HEART RIGHT VENTRICLE FUNCTION; HUMAN; LUNG CIRCULATION; LUNG HEMODYNAMICS; LUNG VASCULAR RESISTANCE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MEAN PULMONARY ARTERY PRESSURE; PULMONARY ARTERY OCCLUSION PRESSURE; PULMONARY HYPERTENSION; PULMONARY VASCULAR DISEASE; PULSATILE FLOW; RC TIME; RESPIRATORY TRACT PARAMETERS; SYSTOLIC PULMONARY ARTERY PRESSURE; THERMODILUTION;

EID: 85003633032     PISSN: None     EISSN: 2051817X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.14814/phy2.12363     Document Type: Article

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