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

Dandapantula, Hari Kumar

Unexplained pulmonary hypertension in elderly patients: role of heart failure with normal ejection fraction, Bernheim effect, and reverse Bernheim effect. [electronic resource] - Chest Jun 2007 - 1987-8; author reply 1988 p. digital

Publication Type: Comment; Letter

0012-3692

10.1378/chest.07-0278 doi


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