Limitations of non-invasive endothelial function assessment by brachial artery flow-mediated dilatation

Clinical Physiology and Functional Imaging

Volumn 25, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 58-61

  Šejda, Tomáš ^a   Pit'ha, Jan ^a,b   Švandová, Eva ^c   Poledne, Rudolf ^d  

^a FAKULTNÍ THOMAYEROVA NEMOCNICE   (Czech Republic)

^b IPVZ   (Czech Republic)

^c National Reference Laboratory for Antibiotics   (Czech Republic)

^d INSTITUTE FOR CLINICAL AND EXPERIMENTAL MEDICINE   (Czech Republic)

Author keywords

Atherosclerosis; Endothelium; Nitric oxide; Ultrasonography; Vasodilatation

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTERY BLOOD FLOW; ARTERY DILATATION; ARTERY ENDOTHELIUM; ARTICLE; BRACHIAL ARTERY; CLINICAL PROTOCOL; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; DIASTOLIC BLOOD PRESSURE; ECHOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HEART RATE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; NON INVASIVE MEASUREMENT; NORMAL HUMAN; OBSERVER VARIATION; PHYSICIAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCREENING TEST; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; SYSTOLIC BLOOD PRESSURE; SYSTOLIC TIME INTERVAL; VASODILATATION;

EID: 13544264771     PISSN: 14750961     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1475-097X.2004.00590.x     Document Type: Article

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