Which is the Better Method in Detecting Significant Left Anterior Descending Coronary Artery Stenosis during Contrast-Enhanced Dobutamine Stress Echocardiography: Coronary Flow Velocity Reserve or Wall-Motion Assessment?

Journal of the American Society of Echocardiography

Volumn 16, Issue 6, 2003, Pages 614-621

  Takeuchi, Masaaki ^a   Miyazaki, Chinami ^b   Yoshitani, Hidetoshi ^b   Otani, Shinichiro ^b   Sakamoto, Kazuo ^b   Yoshikawa, Junichi ^b  

^a University of Occupational and Environmental Health   (Japan)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATROPINE; CONTRAST MEDIUM; DOBUTAMINE; SHU 508; DIAGNOSTIC AGENT; POLYSACCHARIDE;

ADULT; AGED; ANGIOCARDIOGRAPHY; BLOOD FLOW VELOCITY; CALCULATION; CONFERENCE PAPER; CONTRAST ENHANCEMENT; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORONARY ARTERY BLOOD FLOW; CORONARY ARTERY OBSTRUCTION; DEVICE; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DOPPLER ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; ENDOCARDIUM; FEASIBILITY STUDY; FEMALE; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE; HEART MOVEMENT; HUMAN; INJECTION; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; LEFT ANTERIOR DESCENDING CORONARY ARTERY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEASUREMENT; STENOSIS; STRESS ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; TECHNIQUE; ARTICLE; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; ECHOGRAPHY; HEART CONTRACTION; MIDDLE AGED; PHYSIOLOGY; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

BLOOD FLOW VELOCITY; CONTRAST MEDIA; CORONARY ANGIOGRAPHY; CORONARY CIRCULATION; CORONARY STENOSIS; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY, STRESS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MYOCARDIAL CONTRACTION; POLYSACCHARIDES; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

EID: 0041909748     PISSN: 08947317     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0894-7317(03)00280-3     Document Type: Conference Paper

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