Noninvasive assessment of left and right internal mammary artery graft patency using transthoracic color Doppler echocardiography

Italian Heart Journal

Volumn 4, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 173-178

  De Simone, Luigi ^a   Caso, Pio ^a   Severino, Sergio ^a   Cicala, Silvana ^a   Galderisi, Maurizio ^b   Renzulli, Attilio ^a   Bonzani, Giulio ^a   Scherillo, Marino ^a   Mininni, Nicola ^a   Cotrufo, Maurizio ^a  

^a MONALDI HOSPITAL   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NAPLES FEDERICO II   (Italy)

Author keywords

Coronary artery bypass graft; Dipyridamole; Echocardiography

Indexed keywords

DIPYRIDAMOLE;

ADULT; ANGIOCARDIOGRAPHY; ARTICLE; BLOOD FLOW VELOCITY; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COLOR ULTRASOUND FLOWMETRY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORONARY ARTERY BYPASS GRAFT; DIASTOLIC BLOOD PRESSURE; DISEASE SEVERITY; DOSE RESPONSE; FEMALE; GRAFT OCCLUSION; GRAFT PATENCY; HEART MUSCLE REVASCULARIZATION; HUMAN; LEFT ANTERIOR DESCENDING CORONARY ARTERY; MALE; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; NON INVASIVE MEASUREMENT; RANK SUM TEST; RIGHT CORONARY ARTERY; SYSTOLIC BLOOD PRESSURE; TRANSTHORACIC ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY;

BLOOD FLOW VELOCITY; CORONARY ANGIOGRAPHY; CORONARY ARTERY BYPASS; DIASTOLE; DIPYRIDAMOLE; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY, DOPPLER, COLOR; FEMALE; GRAFT OCCLUSION, VASCULAR; HUMANS; INFUSIONS, INTRA-ARTERIAL; MALE; MAMMARY ARTERIES; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; OBSERVER VARIATION; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; STATISTICS; SYSTOLE; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VASCULAR PATENCY; VASODILATOR AGENTS;

EID: 0038142689     PISSN: 1129471X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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