Unexplained pulmonary hypertension in elderly patients: role of heart failure with normal ejection fraction, Bernheim effect, and reverse Bernheim effect.

Subjects

Subjects :

Aged
Aged, 80 and over
Diastole physiology
Diuretics therapeutic use
Humans
Hypertension, Pulmonary drug therapy
Hypertension, Pulmonary physiopathology
Stroke Volume physiology
Ventricular Dysfunction, Left physiopathology
Ventricular Dysfunction, Right physiopathology
Cardiac Output, Low complications
Cardiac Output, Low physiopathology
Hypertension, Pulmonary etiology
Ventricular Dysfunction, Left complications
Ventricular Dysfunction, Right complications

Details

Language :

English

ISSN :

0012-3692

Volume :

131

Issue :

6

Database :

MEDLINE

Journal :

Chest

Publication Type :

Editorial & Opinion

Accession number :

17565037

Full Text :

https://doi.org/10.1378/chest.07-0278