Serial evaluation of coronary flow reserve by transesophageal doppler echocardiography after angiopiasty of proximal left anterior descending coronary artery: A 6-month follow-up study

Coronary Artery Disease

Volumn 12, Issue 1, 2001, Pages 45-52

  Paraskevaidis, Ioannis A ^a   Tsiapras, Dimitrios ^a   Karavolias, George K ^a   Kyriakides, Zenon S ^a   Kremastinos, Dimitrios Th ^a  

^a ONASSIS CARDIAC SURGERY CENTER   (Greece)

Author keywords

Angioplasty; Coronary flow reserve; Transesophageal echocardiography

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BLOOD FLOW VELOCITY; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CORONARY ARTERY BLOOD FLOW; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; LEFT ANTERIOR DESCENDING CORONARY ARTERY; MALE; PERCUTANEOUS TRANSLUMINAL ANGIOPLASTY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESTENOSIS; TRANSESOPHAGEAL ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY;

ANGIOPLASTY, TRANSLUMINAL, PERCUTANEOUS CORONARY; BLOOD FLOW VELOCITY; CORONARY DISEASE; CORONARY VESSELS; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY, DOPPLER; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY, TRANSESOPHAGEAL; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; REGIONAL BLOOD FLOW;

EID: 0035132727     PISSN: 09546928     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00019501-200102000-00007     Document Type: Article

References (32)

1. Assessment of coronary stenosis by myocardial perfusion imaging during pharmacologic vasodilation, VII: Validation of coronary flow reserve as a single integrated functional measure of stenosis severity reflecting all its geometric dimensions
2. Non invasive assessment of coronary stenosis by myocardial perfusion imaging during pharmacologic coronary vasodilation, VII: Clinical feasibility of positron cardiac imaging without a cyclotron using a generator-produced rubidium-82
3. Criteria for successful coronary angioplasty as assessed by alterations in coronary vasodilatory reserve
4. The effect of coronary angioplasty on coronary flow reserve
5. Detection of restenosis after elective percutaneous transluminal coronary angioplasty using the exercise treadmill test
6. Early detection of restenosis after successful percutaneous transluminal coronary angioplasty by exercise-redistribution thallium scintigraphy
7. Transesophageal Doppler evaluation of left anterior descending coronary artery angioplasty
8. Coronary flow reserve assessed by transesophageal echocardiography identifies early restenosis of the left anterior descending coronary artery angioplasty
9. Prediction of the physiologic significance of coronary arterial lesions by quantitative lesion geometry in patients with limited coronary artery disease
10. Transesophageal Doppler echocardiography evaluation of coronary blood flow velocity in baseline conditions and during dipyridamole-induced coronary vasodilation
11. Assessment of coronary reserve by transesophageal echocardiography. Direct comparison between different modalities of dipyridamole and adenosine administration
12. Determination of coronary flow measurements by transesophageal echocardiography: Dependence of flow velocity reserve on the location of stenosis
13. Prognostic value of intracoronary flow velocity and diameter stenosis in assessing the short- and long-term outcome of coronary balloon angioplasty. The DEBATE study
14. Improved injection of a lung-crossing contrast agent (SHU 508A)
15. Accuracy of electronic digital calipers compared with quantitative angiography in measuring coronary arterial diameter
16. Percutaneous transluminal angioplasty: Report from the Registry of the National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute
17. Adenosine-induced coronary vasodilation during transesophageal Doppler echocardiography. Rapid and safe measurement of coronary flow reserve ratio can predict significant left anterior descending coronary stenosis
18. Coronary flow velocity reserve after successful balloon angioplasty and directional atherectomy
19. Noninvasive assessment of coronary flow dynamics before and after coronary angioplasty using transesophageal Doppler
20. Compensatory changes of the distal coronary vascular bed during progressive coronary constriction
21. Physiologic basis for assessing critical coronary stenosis. Instantaneous flow response and regional distribution during coronary hyperemia as measures of coronary flow reserve
22. Experimental validation of quantitative coronary arteriography for determining pressure-flow characteristics of coronary stenosis
23. Comparison of myocardial perfusion reserve before and after coronary balloon predilatation and after stent implantation in patients with postangioplasty restenosis
24. Role of coronary artery lumen enlargement in improving coronary blood flow after balloon angioplasty and stenting: A combined intravascular ultrasound Doppler flow and imaging study
25. Normalization of coronary flow reserve by percutaneous transluminal coronary angioplasty
26. Temporal increase in resting coronary blood flow causes an impairment of coronary flow reserve after coronary angioplasty
27. Immediate and long-term effect of balloon angioplasty or stent implantation on the absolute and relative coronary blood flow reserve
28. Impaired coronary vasodilator reserve in the immediate postcoronary angioplasty period: Analysis of coronary artery flow velocity indexes and regional cardiac venous efflux
29. Delayed recovery of coronary resistive vessel function after coronary angioplasty
30. Evidence for altered epicardial coronary artery autoregulation as a cause of distal coronary vasoconstriction after successful percutaneous transluminal coronary angioplasty
31. New noninvasive method for coronary flow reserve assessment. Contrast-enhanced transthoracic second harmonic echo Doppler
32. Intracoronary pressure and flow velocity with sensor tip guidewires. A new methological comprehensive approach for the assessment of coronary hemodynamics before and after interventions