Early temporal changes in coronary flow velocity patterns in patients with acute myocardial infarction demonstrating the 'no-reflow' phenomenon

American Journal of Cardiology

Volumn 84, Issue 4, 1999, Pages 415-419

  Iwakura, Katsuomi ^a   Ito, Hiroshi ^a   Nishikawa, Nagahiro ^a   Hiraoka, Kazuya ^a   Sugimoto, Ken ^a   Higashino, Yorihiko ^a   Masuyama, Tohru ^b   Hori, Masatsugu ^b   Fujii, Kenshi ^a   Minamino, Takazo ^a  

^a Sakurabashi Watanabe Hospital   (Japan)

^b OSAKA UNIVERSITY MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACUTE HEART INFARCTION; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BLOOD FLOW VELOCITY; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTRAST ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORONARY ARTERY BLOOD FLOW; DIASTOLE; DOPPLER FLOWMETRY; FEMALE; GUIDE WIRE; HEART MUSCLE REPERFUSION; HUMAN; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; Q WAVE; ST SEGMENT ELEVATION; SYSTOLE; TRANSLUMINAL CORONARY ANGIOPLASTY;

ADULT; AGED; ANGIOPLASTY, TRANSLUMINAL, PERCUTANEOUS CORONARY; BLOOD FLOW VELOCITY; CORONARY ANGIOGRAPHY; CORONARY CIRCULATION; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY, DOPPLER, COLOR; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HEART CATHETERIZATION; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MYOCARDIAL CONTRACTION; MYOCARDIAL INFARCTION; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES;

EID: 0033566780     PISSN: 00029149     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0002-9149(99)00326-4     Document Type: Article

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