Noninvasive Assessment of Myocardial Ischemia in the Left Ventricular Inferior Regions by Coronary Flow Reserve Measurement Using Transthoracic Doppler Echocardiography

Journal of the American Society of Echocardiography

Volumn 16, Issue 12, 2003, Pages 1252-1257

  Tokai, Kotaro ^a   Watanabe, Hiroyuki ^a   Hirata, Kumiko ^a   Otsuka, Ryo ^a   Muro, Takashi ^a   Yamagishi, Hiroyuki ^a   Yoshiyama, Minoru ^a   Hozumi, Takeshi ^a   Yoshikawa, Junichi ^a  

^a OSAKA CITY UNIVERSITY GRADUATE SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

THALLIUM 201;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CORONARY ARTERY BLOOD FLOW; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; DOPPLER ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE; HEART MUSCLE ISCHEMIA; HUMAN; MALE; NON INVASIVE MEASUREMENT; SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTER TOMOGRAPHY; TRANSTHORACIC ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY;

EID: 0345167113     PISSN: 08947317     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1067/j.echo.2003.08.008     Document Type: Article

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