Echocardiographic predictors of mortality in patients with pulmonary hypertension and cardiopulmonary comorbidities.

We aimed to identify the echocardiographic measures associated with survival in a patient population with a high prevalence of co-morbid cardiovascular and pulmonary disease that have significantly elevated estimated pulmonary artery systolic pressures (ePASP).Pulmonary hypertension (PH) is a clinic...

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Main Authors: Johannes Steiner, Wen-Chih Wu, Matthew Jankowich, Bradley A Maron, Satish Sharma, Gaurav Choudhary
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2015-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC4361665?pdf=render