Pulmonary function vascular index predicts prognosis in idiopathic interstitial pneumonia
Respirology, 05/04/2012
Corte TJ et al. – A vascular index comprised of baseline and 6–month decline in KCO strongly predicted increased mortality and development of Pulmonary hypertension on echocardiography. In, KCO may be an important marker for pulmonary vascular disease and its associated mortality.



