Right ventricular longitudinal strain is diminished in systemic sclerosis compared with idiopathic pulmonary arterial hypertension

European Respiratory Journal

Volumn 50, Issue 5, 2017, Pages

  Mukherjee, Monica ^a   Mercurio, Valentina ^b   Tedford, Ryan J ^a   Shah, Ami A ^a   Hsu, Steven ^a   Mullin, Christopher J ^b   Sato, Takahiro ^b   Damico, Rachel ^b   Kolb, Todd M ^b   Mathai, Stephen C ^b   Hassoun, Paul M ^b  

^a JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMBRISENTAN; TADALAFIL;

AGE; CHRONIC OBSTRUCTIVE LUNG DISEASE; CLINICAL PROTOCOL; CORRELATIONAL STUDY; DEMOGRAPHY; DIASTOLIC DYSFUNCTION; DISEASE CLASSIFICATION; DISEASE DURATION; GENDER; HEART CATHETERIZATION; HEART RIGHT VENTRICLE CONTRACTILITY; HEART STROKE VOLUME; HEMODYNAMIC PARAMETERS; HUMAN; INTERSTITIAL LUNG DISEASE; LETTER; LONG TERM SURVIVAL; LUNG ARTERY PRESSURE; LUNG VASCULAR RESISTANCE; LUNG WEDGE PRESSURE; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PROGNOSIS; PULMONARY HYPERTENSION; PULSE PRESSURE; RIGHT VENTRICULAR LONGITUDINAL STRAIN; SYSTEMIC SCLEROSIS; TRICUSPID ANNULAR PLANE SYSTOLIC EXCURSION; TWO DIMENSIONAL ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; COMPARATIVE STUDY; COMPLICATION; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; ETIOLOGY; FEMALE; HEART RIGHT VENTRICLE FUNCTION; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MORTALITY; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS;

ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; FAMILIAL PRIMARY PULMONARY HYPERTENSION; FEMALE; HUMANS; HYPERTENSION, PULMONARY; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SCLERODERMA, SYSTEMIC; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS; VENTRICULAR DYSFUNCTION, RIGHT;

EID: 85047396084     PISSN: 09031936     EISSN: 13993003     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1183/13993003.01436-2017     Document Type: Letter

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