Relation between air-filled albumin microbubble and red blood cell rheology in the human myocardium: Influence of echocardiographic systems and chest wall attenuation

Circulation

Volumn 94, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 445-451

  Ismail, Suad ^a   Jayaweera, Ananda R ^a   Camarano, Gustavo ^a   Gimple, Lawrence W ^a   Powers, Eric R ^a   Kaul, Sanjiv ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

blood flow; contrast media; echocardiography

Indexed keywords

ALBUMIN; CONTRAST MEDIUM;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BLOOD RHEOLOGY; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL PROTOCOL; CORONARY ARTERY BLOOD FLOW; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; ERYTHROCYTE; FEMALE; HEART CATHETERIZATION; HEART MUSCLE PERFUSION; HUMAN; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; THORAX WALL;

EID: 0029814045     PISSN: 00097322     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1161/01.CIR.94.3.445     Document Type: Article

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