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Pulmonary Wedge Pressure

Known as: Pulmonary Wedge Pressures, pawp, Pulmonary Artery Wedge Pressure 
The blood pressure as recorded after wedging a CATHETER in a small PULMONARY ARTERY; believed to reflect the PRESSURE in the pulmonary CAPILLARIES.
National Institutes of Health

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Pulmonary Capillary Wedge Pressure

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Highly Cited
2010
Highly Cited
2010
Pulmonary capillary pressure in horses undergoing alteration of pleural pressure by imposition of various upper airway resistive loads.
We hypothesized that changes in pleural pressure induced by resistive breathing would affect transmural pulmonary artery… 
Highly Cited
1996
Highly Cited
1996
Shortened Doppler-derived mitral A wave deceleration time: an important predictor of elevated left ventricular filling pressure.
1994
1994
Ascorbic acid reduces the endotoxin‐induced lung injury in awake sheep
Abstract Our aim was to investigate whether ascorbic acid can reduce reactive oxygen metabolite‐mediated acute lung injury. 
1990
1990
Radial arterial pressure measurements may be a poor guide to the beneficial effects of nitroprusside on left ventricular systolic pressure in congestive heart failure.
1988
1988
Influence of exercise on plasma atrial natriuretic factor levels in patients with myocardial infarction.
Highly Cited
1982
Highly Cited
1982
Hemodynamic effects of acute atrioventricular sequential pacing in patients with left ventricular dysfunction.
Highly Cited
1982
Highly Cited
1982
The contributions of sympathetic tone and the renin-angiotensin system to severe chronic congestive heart failure: response to specific inhibitors (prazosin and captopril).
1980
1980
Comparative hemodynamic effects of converting enzyme inhibitor and sodium nitroprusside in severe heart failure.
1976
1976
Hemodynamic effects of dopamine in critically ill septic patients.
Review
1968
Review
1968
Cardiac function following mitral valve replacement.
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