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Counter-clockwise vortical blood flow in the main pulmonary artery in a patient with patent ductus arteriosus with pulmonary arterial hypertension: a cardiac magnetic resonance imaging case report

BACKGROUND: In patients with pulmonary hypertension (PH), duration of vortical blood flow along the main pulmonary artery enables estimation of the mean pulmonary arterial pressure (mPAP) non-invasively. It remains to date not known, if this method is applicable in patients with pulmonary arterial h...

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Autores principales: Reiter, Gert, Reiter, Ursula, Kovacs, Gabor, Adelsmayr, Gabriel, Greiser, Andreas, Stalder, Aurelien F., Olschewski, Horst, Fuchsjäger, Michael
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2016
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4977657/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27501792
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12880-016-0150-z