Simple Detection of Occluded Coronary Artery Using Retrograde Flow in Septal Branch and Left Anterior Descending Coronary Artery by Transthoracic Doppler Echocardiography at Rest

Journal of the American Society of Echocardiography

Volumn 17, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 108-113

  Hirata, Kumiko ^a   Watanabe, Hiroyuki ^a   Hozumi, Takeshi ^a   Tokai, Koutaro ^a   Otsuka, Ryo ^a   Fujimoto, Kouhei ^a   Shimada, Kenei ^a   Muro, Takashi ^a   Yoshiyama, Minoru ^a   Yoshikawa, Junichi ^a  

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

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ANGIOGRAPHY; ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; CORONARY ARTERY BLOOD FLOW; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; DOPPLER ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; EPICARDIUM; FEMALE; HEART INFARCTION; HEART VENTRICLE SEPTUM; HUMAN; ISCHEMIC HEART DISEASE; LEFT ANTERIOR DESCENDING CORONARY ARTERY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MULTICENTER STUDY; REST; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TRANSTHORACIC ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY;

EID: 10744221483     PISSN: 08947317     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.echo.2003.09.019     Document Type: Article

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