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Right atrial to left atrial area ratio on early echocardiography predicts long-term survival after acute pulmonary embolism

BACKGROUND: Current guidelines recommend that transthoracic echocardiography (TTE) should be performed for acute risk stratification following acute pulmonary embolism (PE), but it is unclear whether the initial TTE can predict long-term outcome beyond six months. We sought to assess the potential o...

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Autores principales: Chow, Vincent, Ng, Austin Chin Chwan, Chung, Tommy, Thomas, Liza, Kritharides, Leonard
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2013
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3673888/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23725312
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1476-7120-11-17