Improving feasibility of posterior descending coronary artery flow recording by transthoracic Doppler echocardiography

European Journal of Echocardiography

Volumn 4, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 214-220

  Auriti, A ^a   Cianfrocca, C ^a   Pristipino, C ^a   Greco, S ^a   Galeazzi, M ^a   Guido, V ^a   Santini, M ^a  

^a SAN FILIPPO NERI HOSPITAL   (Italy)

Author keywords

Coronary flow; Doppler; Echocardiography

Indexed keywords

SHU 508;

ADULT; AGED; ANGIOCARDIOGRAPHY; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTRAST ENHANCEMENT; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORONARY ARTERY; CORONARY ARTERY BLOOD FLOW; CORONARY ARTERY OBSTRUCTION; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DISEASE SEVERITY; DOPPLER ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; FEASIBILITY STUDY; FEMALE; FOUR DIMENSIONAL ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; LEFT ANTERIOR DESCENDING CORONARY ARTERY; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; RECORDING; SCORING SYSTEM; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; TRANSTHORACIC ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; TWO DIMENSIONAL ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ARTERIES; BLOOD FLOW VELOCITY; CORONARY ANGIOGRAPHY; CORONARY CIRCULATION; CORONARY STENOSIS; CORONARY VESSELS; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY, DOPPLER; FEASIBILITY STUDIES; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; STATISTICS;

EID: 0042140587     PISSN: 15252167     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1525-2167(03)00014-3     Document Type: Article

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