Assessment of coronary stenoses of graded severity by myocardial contrast echocardiography

Journal of the American Society of Echocardiography

Volumn 15, Issue 3, 2002, Pages 197-205

  Galiuto, Leonarda ^a,d   May Newman, Karen ^c   Del Balzo, Ughetta ^c   Flaim, Stephen F ^c   Iliceto, Sabino ^b   DeMaria, Anthony N ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CAGLIARI   (Italy)

^c Alliance Pharmaceutical Corporation   (United States)

^d FONDAZIONE POLICLINICO UNIVERSITARIO A GEMELLI IRCCS   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AF 0150; DIAGNOSTIC AGENT; MICROSPHERE; PERFLEXANE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BLOOD FLOWMETRY; CONTRAST ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORONARY ARTERY BLOOD FLOW; CORONARY ARTERY OBSTRUCTION; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; DISEASE SEVERITY; ELECTROCARDIOGRAM; HEART MUSCLE BLOOD FLOW; HYPEREMIA; LEFT ANTERIOR DESCENDING CORONARY ARTERY; NONHUMAN; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SWINE; VASODILATATION; ANIMAL; BLOOD FLOW VELOCITY; CORONARY BLOOD VESSEL; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; ECHOGRAPHY; HOSPITALIZATION; METHODOLOGY; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY;

ANIMALS; BLOOD FLOW VELOCITY; CORONARY CIRCULATION; CORONARY STENOSIS; CORONARY VESSELS; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; MODELS, ANIMAL; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; SWINE; VASODILATION;

EID: 0036515625     PISSN: 08947317     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1067/mje.2002.117291     Document Type: Article

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