Coronary flow reserve assessed by transesophageal echocardiography identifies early restenosis of the left anterior descending coronary artery angioplasty

American Journal of Cardiology

Volumn 79, Issue 6, 1997, Pages 803-807

  Paraskevaidis, Ioannis A ^a   Katritsis, Demosthenes G ^a   Tsiapras, Dimitrios P ^a   Kyriakides, Zenon S ^a   Korovesis, Socrates T ^a   Kremastinos, Dimitrios Th ^a  

^a ONASSIS CARDIAC SURGERY CENTER   (Greece)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTERY DIAMETER; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; CORONARY ARTERY BLOOD FLOW; CORONARY ARTERY OBSTRUCTION; EARLY DIAGNOSIS; HUMAN; LEFT ANTERIOR DESCENDING CORONARY ARTERY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; RESTENOSIS; TRANSESOPHAGEAL ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; TRANSLUMINAL CORONARY ANGIOPLASTY;

ANGIOPLASTY, TRANSLUMINAL, PERCUTANEOUS CORONARY; BLOOD FLOW VELOCITY; CORONARY CIRCULATION; CORONARY DISEASE; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY, TRANSESOPHAGEAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RECURRENCE; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 0030956546     PISSN: 00029149     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0002-9149(96)00876-4     Document Type: Article

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