Noninvasive coronary flow velocity reserve measurement in the posterior descending coronary artery for detecting coronary stenosis in the right coronary artery using contrast-enhanced transthoracic doppler echocardiography

Echocardiography

Volumn 21, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 225-233

  Watanabe, Hiroyuki ^a,b   Hozumi, Takeshi ^a   Hirata, Kumiko ^a   Otsuka, Ryo ^a   Tokai, Kotaro ^a   Muro, Takashi ^a   Shimada, Kenei ^a   Yoshiyama, Minoru ^a   Takeuchi, Kazuhide ^a   Yoshikawa, Junichi ^a  

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

^b NONE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Coronary flow reserve; Coronary stenosis; Noninvasive; Right coronary artery; Transthoracic Doppler echocardiography

Indexed keywords

ADENOSINE TRIPHOSPHATE;

ADULT; ANGINA PECTORIS; ANGIOCARDIOGRAPHY; ARTICLE; BLOOD FLOW VELOCITY; CALCULATION; CONTRAST ENHANCEMENT; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORONARY ARTERY BLOOD FLOW; CORONARY ARTERY OBSTRUCTION; DIASTOLIC BLOOD PRESSURE; DOPPLER ECHOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMAN; HYPEREMIA; LEFT ANTERIOR DESCENDING CORONARY ARTERY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEASUREMENT; MEDICAL ASSESSMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RIGHT CORONARY ARTERY; TRANSTHORACIC ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY;

ADENOSINE TRIPHOSPHATE; ANGINA PECTORIS; BLOOD FLOW VELOCITY; CORONARY ANGIOGRAPHY; CORONARY CIRCULATION; CORONARY STENOSIS; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY, DOPPLER; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

EID: 11144357390     PISSN: 07422822     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.0742-2822.2004.03028.x     Document Type: Article

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