Membrane diffusion- and capillary blood volume measurements are not useful as screening tools for pulmonary arterial hypertension in systemic sclerosis: a case control study

BACKGROUND: There is no optimal screening tool for the assessment of pulmonary arterial hypertension (PAH) in patients with systemic sclerosis (SSc). A decreasing transfer factor of the lung for CO (TLCO) is associated with the development of PAH in SSc. TLCO can be partitioned into the diffusion of...

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Autores principales: Overbeek, Maria J, Groepenhoff, Herman, Voskuyl, Alexandre E, Smit, Egbert F, Peeters, Jochem WL, Vonk-Noordegraaf, Anton, Spreeuwenberg, Marieke D, Dijkmans, Ben C, Boonstra, Anco
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2008
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Research
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2576177/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/18828919
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1465-9921-9-68

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https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2576177/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/18828919
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1465-9921-9-68

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