Microvascular structural correlates of myocardial contrast echocardiography in patients with coronary artery disease and left ventricular dysfunction: Implications for the assessment of myocardial hibernation

Circulation

Volumn 106, Issue 8, 2002, Pages 950-956

  Shimoni, Sarah ^a   Frangogiannis, Nikolaos G ^a   Aggeli, Constadina J ^a   Shan, Kesavan ^a   Quinones, Miguel A ^a   Espada, Rafael ^a   Letsou, George V ^a   Lawrie, Gerald M ^a   Winters, William L ^a   Reardon, Michael J ^a   Zoghbi, William A ^a  

^a BAYLOR COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Coronary disease; Echocardiography; Hibernation; Ischemia; Perfusion

Indexed keywords

CONTRAST MEDIUM; FS 069;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BLOOD FLOW VELOCITY; CAPILLARY DENSITY; CELL DENSITY; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTRAST ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; CYTOARCHITECTURE; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; FEMALE; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE FAILURE; HEART MUSCLE BIOPSY; HEART MUSCLE PERFUSION; HIBERNATION; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MALE; MICROVASCULATURE; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVASCULARIZATION; TRANSESOPHAGEAL ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY;

AGED; BIOPSY; CAPILLARIES; CORONARY ANGIOGRAPHY; CORONARY ARTERIOSCLEROSIS; CORONARY CIRCULATION; CORONARY VESSELS; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY, TRANSESOPHAGEAL; FEMALE; FIBROSIS; HEART; HUMANS; MALE; MICROCIRCULATION; MIDDLE AGED; MYOCARDIAL STUNNING; MYOCARDIUM; OBSERVER VARIATION; VENTRICULAR DYSFUNCTION, LEFT;

EID: 0037143660     PISSN: 00097322     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1161/01.CIR.0000026395.19594.43     Document Type: Article

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