Repeated assessment of coronary flow velocity pattern in patients with first acute myocardial infarction

Journal of the American College of Cardiology

Volumn 39, Issue 8, 2002, Pages 1283-1289

  Lepper, Wolfgang ^a   Sieswerda, Gertjan T j ^b   Franke, Andreas ^a   Heussen, Nicole ^c   Kamp, Otto ^b   De Cock, Carel C ^b   Schwarz, Ernst R ^a   Voci, Paolo ^d   Visser, Cees A ^b   Hanrath, Peter ^a   Hoffmann, Rainer ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL RWTH AACHEN   (Germany)

^b VU UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^c RWTH AACHEN UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^d Core Laboratory ^*  (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACUTE HEART INFARCTION; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BLOOD FLOW VELOCITY; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CORONARY ARTERY BLOOD FLOW; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; FEMALE; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE FUNCTION; HEART MUSCLE PERFUSION; HUMAN; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REPERFUSION INJURY; TRANSLUMINAL CORONARY ANGIOPLASTY;

AGED; ANGIOPLASTY, TRANSLUMINAL, PERCUTANEOUS CORONARY; BLOOD FLOW VELOCITY; CIRCADIAN RHYTHM; COHORT STUDIES; CORONARY CIRCULATION; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MYOCARDIAL INFARCTION; MYOCARDIAL REPERFUSION; STATISTICS; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VENTRICULAR FUNCTION, LEFT;

EID: 0037123150     PISSN: 07351097     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0735-1097(02)01753-9     Document Type: Article

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