Two different coronary blood flow velocity patterns in thrombolysis in myocardial infarction flow grade 2 in acute myocardial infarction: Insight into mechanisms of microvascular dysfunction

Journal of the American College of Cardiology

Volumn 40, Issue 10, 2002, Pages 1755-1760

  Yamamoto, Koichi ^a   Ito, Hiroshi ^a   Iwakura, Katsuomi ^a   Kawano, Shigeo ^a   Ikushima, Masashi ^a   Masuyama, Tohru ^b   Ogihara, Toshio ^b   Fujii, Kenshi ^a  

^a Sakurabashi Watanabe Hospital   (Japan)

^b OSAKA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FIBRINOLYTIC AGENT;

ADULT; AGED; ARTERY RESISTANCE; ARTICLE; BLOOD FLOW VELOCITY; CONTRAST ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; CORONARY ARTERY BLOOD FLOW; DIASTOLIC BLOOD PRESSURE; DISEASE CLASSIFICATION; DOPPLER ECHOGRAPHY; FEMALE; FIBRINOLYTIC THERAPY; GUIDE WIRE; HEART INFARCTION; HEART MUSCLE REPERFUSION; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MICROANGIOPATHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SYSTOLIC BLOOD PRESSURE; THROMBOEMBOLISM; THROMBOSIS; TISSUE PERFUSION;

AGED; BLOOD FLOW VELOCITY; CORONARY VESSELS; DIASTOLE; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HEMODYNAMIC PROCESSES; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MYOCARDIAL INFARCTION; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; STROKE VOLUME; SYSTOLE; THROMBOLYTIC THERAPY;

EID: 0037145923     PISSN: 07351097     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0735-1097(02)02486-5     Document Type: Article

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