Noninvasive assessment of microvascular function in arterial hypertension by transthoracic Doppler harmonic echocardiography

Journal of the American College of Cardiology

Volumn 39, Issue 12, 2002, Pages 2012-2018

  Bartel, Thomas ^a   Yang, Y a ^a   Müller, Silvana ^b   Wenzel, René R ^a   Baumgart, Dietrich ^a   Philipp, Thomas ^a   Erbel, Raimund ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF DUISBURG ESSEN   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF INNSBRUCK   (Austria)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADENOSINE;

ADULT; AGED; ANGIOCARDIOGRAPHY; ARTICLE; CORONARY ARTERY BLOOD FLOW; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DOPPLER ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HEMODYNAMIC PARAMETERS; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; INTRACORONARY INFUSION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MICROVASCULATURE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TRANSTHORACIC ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY;

ADULT; AGED; BLOOD FLOW VELOCITY; CORONARY CIRCULATION; CORONARY VESSELS; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY, DOPPLER; FEMALE; HUMANS; HYPERTENSION; LINEAR MODELS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; REGIONAL BLOOD FLOW; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

EID: 0037134942     PISSN: 07351097     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0735-1097(02)01906-X     Document Type: Article

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