Quantitative evaluation of ventilation-perfusion heterogeneity in precapillary pulmonary hypertension with SPECT scintigraphy

Tripura Sharma (Sydney, Australia), Kaipa Tripura Sharma, Edmund Lau, Tamera Corte, David Celermajer, Dale Bailey, Elizabeth Bailey, Geoff Schembri

Source: International Congress 2015 – Pulmonary circulation: the story of fresh and old clots
Session: Pulmonary circulation: the story of fresh and old clots
Session type: Poster Discussion
Number: 4570
Disease area: Pulmonary vascular diseases

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