Noninvasive measurement of left coronary blood flow reserve by transthoracic Doppler echocardiography: Comparison with Doppler guidewire ultrasonography

Echocardiography

Volumn 16, Issue 6, 1999, Pages 547-557

  Kuriki, Satoshi ^a   Nasu, Masataka ^a   Fukami, Ken Ichi ^a   Hiramori, Katsuhiko ^a  

^a IWATE MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Coronary blood flow reserve; Coronary blood flow velocity; Doppler guidewire; Transthoracic Doppler echocardiography

Indexed keywords

DIPYRIDAMOLE;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BLOOD FLOW VELOCITY; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CORONARY ARTERY BLOOD FLOW; DOPPLER ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMAN; HYPEREMIA; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; INTRAVASCULAR ULTRASOUND; ISCHEMIC HEART DISEASE; LEFT ANTERIOR DESCENDING CORONARY ARTERY; LEFT CORONARY ARTERY; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TRANSTHORACIC ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY;

EID: 0032855774     PISSN: 07422822     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1540-8175.1999.tb00103.x     Document Type: Article

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