Correlation between heart size and emphysema in patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease: CT-based analysis using inspiratory and expiratory scans

Chronic Respiratory Disease

Volumn 15, Issue 3, 2018, Pages 272-278

  Tomita, Hayato ^a   Yamashiro, Tsuneo ^b   Matsuoka, Shin ^a   Matsushita, Shoichiro ^a   Nakajima, Yasuo ^a  

^a ST MARIANNA UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF THE RYUKYUS   (Japan)

Author keywords

COPD; CT; expiratory; Heart size; inspiratory

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CHRONIC OBSTRUCTIVE LUNG DISEASE; CORRELATIONAL STUDY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DISEASE COURSE; EMPHYSEMA; FEMALE; HEART SIZE; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; INFORMED CONSENT; LUNG VOLUME; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESPIRATORY AIRFLOW; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SPIROMETRY; BODY MASS; CARDIAC MUSCLE; COMPLICATION; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; EXHALATION; FORCED EXPIRATORY VOLUME; HEART; INHALATION; LUNG EMPHYSEMA; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; ORGAN SIZE; PATHOLOGY; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PROCEDURES; VERY ELDERLY; VITAL CAPACITY; X-RAY COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BODY MASS INDEX; EXHALATION; FEMALE; FORCED EXPIRATORY VOLUME; HEART; HUMANS; INHALATION; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MYOCARDIUM; ORGAN SIZE; PULMONARY DISEASE, CHRONIC OBSTRUCTIVE; PULMONARY EMPHYSEMA; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SPIROMETRY; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; VITAL CAPACITY;

EID: 85051273600     PISSN: 14799723     EISSN: 14799731     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1479972317741896     Document Type: Article

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