[Echocardiographic evidence on development of chronic cor pulmonale in asthmatics]

Klin Med (Mosk). 2002;80(12):26-31.
[Article in Russian]

Abstract

Early detection of chronic cor pulmonale (CCP) is essential for diagnosis of the patient's condition, choice of adequate therapy, improvement of the prognosis. The study of parameters of pulmonary hemodynamics, right and left heart in 125 patients with bronchial asthma determined how CCP is formed in such patients.

MeSH terms

  • Adolescent
  • Adult
  • Asthma / complications*
  • Asthma / physiopathology
  • Chronic Disease
  • Female
  • Hemodynamics
  • Humans
  • Hypertension, Pulmonary / diagnostic imaging
  • Hypertension, Pulmonary / physiopathology
  • Male
  • Middle Aged
  • Pulmonary Heart Disease / diagnostic imaging*
  • Pulmonary Heart Disease / etiology*
  • Pulmonary Heart Disease / physiopathology
  • Ultrasonography