Assessment of the ability of myocardial contrast echocardiography with harmonic power Doppler imaging to identify perfusion abnormalities in patients with Kawasaki disease at rest and during dipyridamole stress

Pediatric Cardiology

Volumn 23, Issue 2, 2002, Pages 192-199

  Ishii, M ^a   Himeno, W ^a   Sawa, M ^b   Iemura, M ^a   Furui, J ^a   Muta, H ^a   Sugahara, Y ^a   Egami, K ^a   Akagi, T ^a   Ishibashi, M ^a   Kato, H ^a  

^a KURUME UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^b NONE

Author keywords

Harmonic power Doppler imaging; Ischemic heart disease; Kawasaki disease; Myocardial contrast echocardiography

Indexed keywords

DIPYRIDAMOLE; SHU 508; TETROFOSMIN TC 99M; DIAGNOSTIC AGENT; VASODILATOR AGENT;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ANAMNESIS; ARTICLE; CHILD; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTRAST ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORONARY ARTERY ANEURYSM; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DISEASE SEVERITY; DOPPLER ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; EXERCISE TEST; FEMALE; HEART INFARCTION; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; MALE; MUCOCUTANEOUS LYMPH NODE SYNDROME; PERFUSION; RISK FACTOR; SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTER TOMOGRAPHY; STENOSIS; CORONARY ARTERY BLOOD FLOW; CORONARY ARTERY OBSTRUCTION; ECHOGRAPHY; EVALUATION; IMAGE PROCESSING; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PRESCHOOL CHILD; SCINTISCANNING; STRESS ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; CORONARY CIRCULATION; CORONARY STENOSIS; DIPYRIDAMOLE; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY, DOPPLER; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY, STRESS; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MALE; MUCOCUTANEOUS LYMPH NODE SYNDROME; MYOCARDIAL INFARCTION; TOMOGRAPHY, EMISSION-COMPUTED, SINGLE-PHOTON; VASODILATOR AGENTS;

EID: 0036512786     PISSN: 01720643     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00246-001-0046-7     Document Type: Article

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