Relative Coronary Flow Velocity Reserve Improves Correlation with Stress Myocardial Perfusion Imaging in Assessment of Coronary Artery Stenoses

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Volumn 124, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 1266-1274

  Voudris, Vassilis ^a   Avramides, Dimitrios ^a   Koutelou, Maria ^b   Malakos, John ^a   Manginas, Athanasios ^a   Papadakis, Manolis ^a   Cokkinos, Dennis V ^a  

^a ONASSIS CARDIAC SURGERY CENTER   (Greece)

^b Nucl Med Dept Evangelismos H   (Greece)

Author keywords

Coronary artery disease; Coronary flow velocity reserve; Intracoronary Doppler angiography; Thallium imaging

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ANGINA PECTORIS; ANGIOCARDIOGRAPHY; AREA UNDER THE CURVE; ARTERY DIAMETER; ARTICLE; BLOOD FLOW VELOCITY; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORONARY ARTERY BLOOD FLOW; CORONARY ARTERY OBSTRUCTION; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DIAGNOSTIC PROCEDURE; DISEASE SEVERITY; FEMALE; HEART HEMODYNAMICS; HEART MUSCLE PERFUSION; HUMAN; HYPEREMIA; IMAGE ANALYSIS; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REST; SILENT MYOCARDIAL ISCHEMIA; STRESS;

EID: 0142042373     PISSN: 00123692     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1378/chest.124.4.1266     Document Type: Article

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