Noninvasive assessment of significant left anterior descending coronary artery stenosis by coronary flow velocity reserve with transthoracic color doppler echocardiography

Circulation

Volumn 97, Issue 16, 1998, Pages 1557-1562

  Hozumi, Takeshi ^a,b   Yoshida, Kiyoshi ^a   Ogata, Yumiko ^a   Akasaka, Takashi ^a   Asami, Yoshio ^a   Takagi, Tsutomu ^a   Morioka, Shigefumi ^a  

^a General Hospital   (Japan)

^b KOBE CITY MEDICAL CENTER GENERAL HOSPITAL   (Japan)

Author keywords

Blood flow; Coronary disease; Echocardiography

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; COLOR ULTRASOUND FLOWMETRY; CORONARY ARTERY BLOOD FLOW; CORONARY ARTERY OBSTRUCTION; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; FEMALE; HUMAN; LEFT ANTERIOR DESCENDING CORONARY ARTERY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TRANSTHORACIC ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY;

EID: 0032574674     PISSN: 00097322     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1161/01.CIR.97.16.1557     Document Type: Article

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