Coronary flow reserve and brachial artery reactivity in patients with chest pain and "false positive" exercise-induced ST-segment depression

American Journal of Cardiology

Volumn 89, Issue 9, 2002, Pages 1141-1144

  Rigo, Fausto ^a   Pratali, Lorenza ^b   Pálinkás, Attila ^c   Picano, Eugenio ^b   Cutaia, Valeria ^a   Venneri, Lucia ^b   Raviele, Antonio ^a  

^a Ospedale Umberto I   (Italy)

^b INSTITUTE OF CLINICAL PHYSIOLOGY   (Italy)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SZEGED   (Hungary)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DIPYRIDAMOLE; SHU 508;

ADULT; AGED; ANGIOCARDIOGRAPHY; ARTICLE; BRACHIAL ARTERY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORONARY ARTERY BLOOD FLOW; CORONARY ARTERY DILATATION; DIAGNOSTIC PROCEDURE; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; DOPPLER FLOWMETER; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; ELECTROCARDIOGRAM; EXERCISE TEST; FEMALE; HUMAN; LEFT ANTERIOR DESCENDING CORONARY ARTERY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; ST SEGMENT DEPRESSION; THORAX PAIN; TRANSESOPHAGEAL ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; TRANSTHORACIC ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY;

BLOOD FLOW VELOCITY; BRACHIAL ARTERY; CHEST PAIN; CONTRAST MEDIA; CORONARY ANGIOGRAPHY; CORONARY CIRCULATION; CORONARY VESSELS; DIPYRIDAMOLE; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY, TRANSESOPHAGEAL; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; EXERCISE TEST; FALSE POSITIVE REACTIONS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MICROVASCULAR ANGINA; MIDDLE AGED; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK FACTORS; VASODILATION;

EID: 0036569947     PISSN: 00029149     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0002-9149(02)02292-0     Document Type: Article

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