Noninvasive assessment of significant right coronary artery stenosis based on coronary flow velocity reserve in the right coronary artery by transthoracic Doppler echocardiography

Echocardiography

Volumn 20, Issue 6, 2003, Pages 495-501

  Ueno, Yoshiki ^a   Nakamura, Yasuyuki ^a   Kinoshita, Masahiko ^a   Fujita, Tamotsu ^b   Sakamoto, Taizou ^b   Okamura, Hiroshi ^c  

^a SHIGA UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCE   (Japan)

^b Okamura Memorial Hospital   (Japan)

^c NONE

Author keywords

Coronary artery disease; Coronary flow velocity reserve; Right coronary artery; Transthoracic Doppler echocardiography

Indexed keywords

ADENOSINE TRIPHOSPHATE;

ADULT; AGED; ANGIOCARDIOGRAPHY; ARTICLE; BLOOD FLOW VELOCITY; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COLOR ULTRASOUND FLOWMETRY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORONARY ARTERY BLOOD FLOW; CORONARY ARTERY OBSTRUCTION; DIASTOLIC BLOOD PRESSURE; DISEASE SEVERITY; FEMALE; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE EJECTION FRACTION; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE WALL; HEART RATE; HUMAN; HYPEREMIA; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RIGHT CORONARY ARTERY; SYSTOLIC BLOOD PRESSURE; TRANSTHORACIC ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY;

ADENOSINE TRIPHOSPHATE; AGED; BLOOD FLOW VELOCITY; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; CORONARY ANGIOGRAPHY; CORONARY CIRCULATION; CORONARY STENOSIS; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY, DOPPLER; FEMALE; HUMANS; HYPEREMIA; MALE; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; VENTRICULAR FUNCTION, LEFT;

EID: 0043166740     PISSN: 07422822     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1540-8175.2003.03085.x     Document Type: Article

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