Clinical implications of the 'no reflow' phenomenon: A predictor of complications and left ventricular remodeling in reperfused anterior wall myocardial infarction

Circulation

Volumn 93, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 223-228

  Ito, Hiroshi ^a   Maruyama, Atsushi ^a   Iwakura, Katsuomi ^a   Takiuchi, Shin ^a   Masuyama, Tohru ^a   Hori, Masatsugu ^b   Higashino, Yorihiko ^a   Fujii, Kenshi ^a   Minamino, Takazo ^b  

^a Sakurabashi Watanabe Hospital   (Japan)

^b OSAKA UNIVERSITY MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Japan)

Author keywords

contrast media; echocardiography; microcirculation; myocardial infarction; prognosis; remodeling; reperfusion

Indexed keywords

MEGLUMINE IOXAGLATE PLUS SODIUM IOXAGLATE;

ACUTE HEART INFARCTION; ADULT; AGED; ANGINA PECTORIS; ANGIOCARDIOGRAPHY; ARTICLE; CONGESTIVE HEART FAILURE; CONTRAST ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; CORONARY ARTERY BLOOD FLOW; FEMALE; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE ENDDIASTOLIC VOLUME; HEART VENTRICLE REMODELING; HEART VENTRICULOGRAPHY; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PERICARDIAL EFFUSION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; RECURRENT DISEASE;

EID: 0030034531     PISSN: 00097322     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1161/01.CIR.93.2.223     Document Type: Article

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