Right ventricular longitudinal strain is diminished in systemic sclerosis compared with idiopathic pulmonary arterial hypertension

Eur Respir J. 2017 Nov 22;50(5):1701436. doi: 10.1183/13993003.01436-2017. Print 2017 Nov.

Affiliations

¹ Division of Cardiology, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, USA [email protected].
² Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, Baltimore, MD, USA.
³ Division of Cardiology, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, USA.
⁴ Division of Rheumatology, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, USA.

No abstract available

Publication types

Comparative Study
Letter
Research Support, N.I.H., Extramural
Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

MeSH terms

Echocardiography
Familial Primary Pulmonary Hypertension / physiopathology*
Female
Humans
Hypertension, Pulmonary / physiopathology*
Longitudinal Studies
Male
Middle Aged
Prospective Studies
Scleroderma, Systemic / complications*
Survival Analysis
Ventricular Dysfunction, Right / etiology
Ventricular Dysfunction, Right / mortality
Ventricular Dysfunction, Right / physiopathology*

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