Lack of Correlation Mass and Diameter of Left Coronary Artery Main Trunk in Hypertensive Patients

American Journal of Hypertension

Volumn 12, Issue 12 II SUPPL., 1999, Pages 1163-1168

  Cuspidi, Cesare ^a,c   Lonati, Laura ^b   Sampieri, Lorena ^a   Valagussa, Laura ^a   Michev, Iassen ^a   Leonetti, Gastone ^b   Zanchetti, Alberto ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MILAN   (Italy)

^b ISTITUTO AUXOLOGICO ITALIANO   (Italy)

^c Ctro Fisiol Clinica e Ipertensione   (Italy)

Author keywords

Arterial hypertension; Left coronary main trunk; Left ventricular hypertrophy; Transthoracic echocardiography

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANGIOCARDIOGRAPHY; ARTERY DIAMETER; ARTERY INTIMA; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE HYPERTROPHY; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE MASS; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; LEFT CORONARY ARTERY; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TRANSTHORACIC ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY;

BLOOD FLOW VELOCITY; BLOOD PRESSURE; CORONARY CIRCULATION; CORONARY VESSELS; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY, DOPPLER; FEMALE; HEART VENTRICLES; HUMANS; HYPERTENSION; HYPERTROPHY, LEFT VENTRICULAR; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MYOCARDIAL CONTRACTION; PROGNOSIS;

EID: 0033391892     PISSN: 08957061     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/s0895-7061(99)00130-2     Document Type: Article

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