 Pulmonary Wedge Pressure
"Pulmonary Wedge Pressure" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus,
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The blood pressure as recorded after wedging a CATHETER in a small PULMONARY ARTERY; believed to reflect the PRESSURE in the pulmonary CAPILLARIES.
| Descriptor ID |
D011669
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| MeSH Number(s) |
G09.330.380.076.695
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| Concept/Terms |
Pulmonary Wedge Pressure- Pulmonary Wedge Pressure
- Pressure, Pulmonary Wedge
- Pressures, Pulmonary Wedge
- Wedge Pressure, Pulmonary
- Wedge Pressures, Pulmonary
- Pulmonary Artery Wedge Pressure
- Pulmonary Wedge Pressures
Wedge Pressure- Wedge Pressure
- Pressure, Wedge
- Pressures, Wedge
- Wedge Pressures
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| 2010 | 0 | 1 | 1 | | 2016 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
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Below are the most recent publications written about "Pulmonary Wedge Pressure" by people in Profiles.
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Goudar SP, Baker GH, Chowdhury SM, Reid KJ, Shirali G, Scheurer MA. Interpreting measurements of cardiac function using vendor-independent speckle tracking echocardiography in children: a prospective, blinded comparison with catheter-derived measurements. Echocardiography. 2016 Dec; 33(12):1903-1910.
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Savage A, Hlavacek A, Ringewald J, Shirali G. Evaluation of the myocardial performance index and tissue doppler imaging by comparison to near-simultaneous catheter measurements in pediatric cardiac transplant patients. J Heart Lung Transplant. 2010 Aug; 29(8):853-8.
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Snyder CL, Saltzman D, Happe J, Eggen MA, Ferrell KL, Leonard AS. Peripheral venous monitoring with acute blood volume alteration: cuff-occluded rate of rise of peripheral venous pressure. Crit Care Med. 1990 Oct; 18(10):1142-5.
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