Short-Term Clinical Outcome of Patients With Acute Pulmonary Embolism, Normal Blood Pressure, and Echocardiographic Right Ventricular Dysfunction
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- 20 June 2000
- journal article
- other
- Published by Wolters Kluwer Health in Circulation
- Vol. 101 (24), 2817-2822
- https://doi.org/10.1161/01.cir.101.24.2817
Abstract
Background—The role of echocardiographic right ventricular (RV) dysfunction in predicting clinical outcome in clinically stable patients with pulmonary embolism (PE) is undefined. In this study, we...Keywords
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