Usefulness of the response of flow velocity in the left anterior descending coronary artery to the cold pressor test for evaluating endothelium-dependent vascular relaxation in the coronary microvasculature by transesophageal echocardiography in subjects with angiographically normal coronary arteries

American Journal of Cardiology

Volumn 84, Issue 11, 1999, Pages 1362-1365

  Chandraratna, P Anthony N ^a   Nimalasuriya, Anoshie R ^a   Vlachonassios, Konstantinos D ^a   Mathews, Sajen J ^a   Kedes, Wagdi ^a   Marwah, Onkar S ^a   Saad, Mohamed ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANGIOCARDIOGRAPHY; ARTICLE; BLOOD VESSEL REACTIVITY; COLD; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORONARY ARTERY; CORONARY ARTERY BLOOD FLOW; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; FEMALE; HUMAN; LEFT ANTERIOR DESCENDING CORONARY ARTERY; MALE; MICROVASCULATURE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TRANSESOPHAGEAL ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY;

ADENOSINE; ADULT; AGED; BLOOD FLOW VELOCITY; COLD; CORONARY ANGIOGRAPHY; CORONARY CIRCULATION; CORONARY DISEASE; CORONARY VESSELS; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY, DOPPLER, COLOR; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY, TRANSESOPHAGEAL; ENDOTHELIUM, VASCULAR; EXERCISE TEST; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFUSIONS, INTRAVENOUS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RISK FACTORS; VASODILATION; VASODILATOR AGENTS;

EID: 0032755378     PISSN: 00029149     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0002-9149(99)00576-7     Document Type: Article

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