Non-invasive assessment of coronary flow reserve - Valuable functional information in cardiac workflow;Nicht invasive bestimmung der koronaren flussreserve mittels echokardiographie - Klinische wertigkeit in der kardiologischen diagnostik

Zeitschrift fur Kardiologie

Volumn 92, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 137-146

  Lambertz, Heinz ^a   Lethen, Harald ^a   Tries, Hans Peter ^a   Kersting, Stefan ^a  

^a DEUTSCHE KLINIK FÜR DIAGNOSTIK   (Germany)

Author keywords

Cardiac ultrasound; Coronary flow reserve; Coronary perfusion

Indexed keywords

CORONARY ARTERY BLOOD FLOW; CORONARY ARTERY BYPASS SURGERY; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; DOPPLER FLOWMETRY; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; FOLLOW UP; HEART CATHETERIZATION; HUMAN; LEFT ANTERIOR DESCENDING CORONARY ARTERY; MICROCIRCULATION; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PATIENT MONITORING; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; PROGNOSIS; REVIEW; RIGHT CORONARY ARTERY; SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTER TOMOGRAPHY; TRANSESOPHAGEAL ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; TRANSTHORACIC ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY;

ANGIOPLASTY, TRANSLUMINAL, PERCUTANEOUS CORONARY; CORONARY CIRCULATION; CORONARY DISEASE; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY, DOPPLER, COLOR; HUMANS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; MICROCIRCULATION; MYOCARDIAL REVASCULARIZATION; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; REFERENCE VALUES;

EID: 0037295117     PISSN: 03005860     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00392-003-0902-y     Document Type: Review

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