Value of fractional flow reserve in the management of patients with moderate coronary stenosis;Valor da reserva fraccional miocárdica na avaliação dos doentes com estenoses moderadas das artérias coronárias

Revista Portuguesa de Cardiologia

Volumn 23, Issue 11, 2004, Pages 1409-1416

  Costa Dias, Carla ^a,b   Mateus, Pedro ^a   Bettencourt, Nuno ^a   Rodrigues, Alberto ^a   Gonçalves, Manuel ^a   Braga, José Pedro ^a   Ribeiro, Vasco G ^a  

^a CENTRO HOSPITALAR DE VILA NOVA DE GAIA ESPINHO   (Portugal)

^b NONE   (Portugal)

Author keywords

Coronary disease; Fractional flow reserve; Outcome

Indexed keywords

ANTIANGINA PECTORIS AGENT;

ADULT; AGED; ANGIOCARDIOGRAPHY; ARTICLE; CLINICAL FEATURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORONARY ARTERY; CORONARY ARTERY OBSTRUCTION; DIAGNOSTIC PROCEDURE; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; EXERCISE TEST; FEMALE; FLOW RATE; FOLLOW UP; FRACTIONAL FLOW RESERVE; HEART HEMODYNAMICS; HUMAN; LEFT ANTERIOR DESCENDING CORONARY ARTERY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL DECISION MAKING; NON INVASIVE MEASUREMENT; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; RISK FACTOR; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CORONARY CIRCULATION; CORONARY STENOSIS; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX;

EID: 11244263244     PISSN: 08702551     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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