"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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| 2004 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
| 2005 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 2017 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
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Below are the most recent publications written about "Pulmonary Wedge Pressure" by people in Profiles.
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Can the Pulmonary Artery Wedge Pressure be Used Reliably as a Surrogate for the Left Atrial Mean Pressure in Pre-Fontan Evaluation? Pediatr Cardiol. 2017 Oct; 38(7):1434-1440.
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Benign outcome of pulmonary hypertension in neonates with a restrictive patent foramen ovale versus result for neonates with an unrestrictive patent foramen ovale. Pediatr Cardiol. 2011 Oct; 32(7):972-6.
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The use of common continuous monitoring parameters: a quality indicator for critically ill patients with sepsis. AACN Clin Issues. 2005 Apr-Jun; 16(2):140-8.
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Pulmonary artery occlusion pressure and central venous pressure fail to predict ventricular filling volume, cardiac performance, or the response to volume infusion in normal subjects. Crit Care Med. 2004 Mar; 32(3):691-9.
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Neurogenic pulmonary edema and other mechanisms of impaired oxygenation after aneurysmal subarachnoid hemorrhage. Neurocrit Care. 2004; 1(2):157-70.
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What role for echocardiography in primary pulmonary hypertension? New ultrasound methods accurately estimate pulmonary pressures. J Crit Illn. 1991 Sep; 6(9):882-8.
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Right heart dysfunction, pulmonary embolism, and paradoxical embolization during liver transplantation. A transesophageal two-dimensional echocardiographic study. Anesth Analg. 1989 Jun; 68(6):777-82.