Clinicopathological correlations in cor pulmonale.
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Clinicopathological correlations in cor pulmonale.
BACKGROUND The relation between pulmonary disease and physiological abnormality in patients with hypoxic cor pulmonale is controversial and the association between arterial hypoxaemia and right ventricular hypertrophy has been challenged. To address these problems matched patients treated with and without domiciliary oxygen were studied. METHODS Necropsy data were obtained on 19 patients (14 ...
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عنوان ژورنال: Thorax
سال: 1992
ISSN: 0040-6376
DOI: 10.1136/thx.47.7.494