Myocardial contrast echocardiography demonstrates that collateral flow can preserve myocardial function beyond a chronically occluded coronary artery

American Journal of Cardiology

Volumn 78, Issue 8, 1996, Pages 958-960

  Vernon, Sarah M ^a   Camarano, Gustavo ^a   Kaul, Sanjiv ^a   Sarembock, Ian J ^a   Gimple, Lawrence W ^a   Powers, Eric R ^a   Ragosta, Michael ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA HEALTH SYSTEM   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGED; ANGIOCARDIOGRAPHY; ARTICLE; COLLATERAL CIRCULATION; CORONARY ARTERY BLOOD FLOW; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; ECHOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HEART CATHETERIZATION; HEART INFARCTION; HUMAN; MALE; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; RADIOGRAPHY;

AGED; COLLATERAL CIRCULATION; CORONARY ANGIOGRAPHY; CORONARY CIRCULATION; CORONARY DISEASE; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HEART CATHETERIZATION; HUMANS; MALE; MYOCARDIAL INFARCTION;

EID: 0030587916     PISSN: 00029149     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0002-9149(96)00478-X     Document Type: Article

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