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Noninvasive estimation of left atrial pressure with transesophageal echocardiography

BACKGROUND: The pulmonary artery catheter (PAC) has historically been used to measure cardiac filling pressures of which pulmonary capillary wedge pressure (PCWP) has been used as a surrogate of left atrial pressure (LAP) and left ventricular end-diastolic pressure. Increasingly, the use of the PAC...

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Autores principales: Cowie, Brian, Kluger, Roman, Rex, Steffen, Missant, Carlo
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Medknow Publications & Media Pvt Ltd 2015
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4881690/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26139734
http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/0971-9784.159799