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Right ventricular dysfunction as an echocardiographic prognostic factor in hemodynamically stable patients with acute pulmonary embolism: a meta-analysis

BACKGROUND: We investigated whether right ventricular dysfunction (RVD) as assessed by echocardiogram can be used as a prognostic factor in hemodynamically stable patients with acute pulmonary embolism (PE). Short-term mortality has been investigated only in small studies and the results have been c...

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Autores principales: Cho, Jae Hyung, Kutti Sridharan, Gurusaravanan, Kim, Seon Ha, Kaw, Roop, Abburi, Triveni, Irfan, Affan, Kocheril, Abraham G
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2014
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4029836/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24884693
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1471-2261-14-64