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Perfusion Lung Scans Provide a Guide to Which Patients With Apparent Primary Pulmonary Hypertension...

Perfusion Lung Scans Provide a Guide to Which Patients With Apparent Primary Pulmonary Hypertension...

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Perfusion Lung Scans Provide a Guide to Which Patients With Apparent Primary Pulmonary Hypertension Merit Angiography

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Full title

Perfusion Lung Scans Provide a Guide to Which Patients With Apparent Primary Pulmonary Hypertension Merit Angiography

Publisher

United States: BMJ Publishing Group LTD

Journal title

The Western journal of medicine, 1988-02, Vol.148 (2), p.167-170

Language

English

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United States: BMJ Publishing Group LTD

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Contents

There is hesitancy, based on the perceived risk, to do pulmonary angiography in patients believed to have primary pulmonary hypertension. Yet pulmonary hypertension due to major-vessel, chronic thromboembolism mimics primary pulmonary hypertension clinically and on standard laboratory tests. Because thromboembolic pulmonary hypertension is potentia...

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Full title

Perfusion Lung Scans Provide a Guide to Which Patients With Apparent Primary Pulmonary Hypertension Merit Angiography

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Record Identifier

TN_cdi_pubmedcentral_primary_oai_pubmedcentral_nih_gov_1026053

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https://devfeature-collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/TN_cdi_pubmedcentral_primary_oai_pubmedcentral_nih_gov_1026053

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ISSN

0093-0415

E-ISSN

1476-2978

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