Feasibility of noninvasive transthoracic echocardiography/Doppler measurement of coronary flow reserve in left anterior descending coronary artery in patients with acute coronary syndrome: A new technique tested in clinical practice

Journal of the American Society of Echocardiography

Volumn 16, Issue 5, 2003, Pages 464-468

  Winter, Reidar ^a   Gudmundsson, Petri ^b   Willenheimer, Ronnie ^b  

^a LUND UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Sweden)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BLOOD FLOW VELOCITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORONARY ARTERY BLOOD FLOW; CORONARY ARTERY OBSTRUCTION; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; DOPPLER ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMAN; LEFT ANTERIOR DESCENDING CORONARY ARTERY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; TRANSTHORACIC ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY;

EID: 0038558149     PISSN: 08947317     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0894-7317(03)00112-3     Document Type: Article

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