Current methods of research in early diagnosis of cor pulmonale in children with diffuse connective tissue diseases
Tiurina, E.N.; Bazhenova, L.K.; Kurchakova, T.V.; Deliagin, V.M.; Tolstikova, L.A.
Pediatriia 1989(12): 29-33
1989
ISSN/ISBN: 0031-403X PMID: 2628905 Document Number: 344583
Twenty children with systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) and 13 children with systemic scleroderma were examined by electrocardiography, tetrapolar chest rheography, rheopulmonography and echocardiography. Half of the cases manifested pulmonary hypertension, which was more appreciable in SLE patients. The results of rheopulmonographic and echocardiographic research methods turned out highly comparable.