Feasibility of measuring coronary flow velocity and reserve in the left anterior descending coronary artery by transthoracic Doppler echocardiography in a relatively obese American population

Echocardiography

Volumn 22, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 225-232

  Takeuchi, Masaaki ^a   Lodato, Joseph A ^b   Furlong, Kathy T ^b   Lang, Roberto M ^b   Yoshikawa, Junichi ^c  

^a University of Occupational and Environmental Health   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

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

Author keywords

Coronary artery; Coronary flow velocity; Coronary flow velocity reserve; Doppler echocardiography; Transthoracic echocardiography; Ultrasound contrast

Indexed keywords

ADENOSINE;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BLOOD FLOW VELOCITY; BLOOD FLOWMETRY; BODY MASS; CALCULATION; CLASSIFICATION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORONARY ARTERY BLOOD FLOW; CORONARY HEMODYNAMICS; DIASTOLE; DOPPLER ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; FEASIBILITY STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; INFUSION; JAPAN; LEFT ANTERIOR DESCENDING CORONARY ARTERY; MALE; NON INVASIVE MEASUREMENT; OBESITY; OBSERVER VARIATION; POPULATION RESEARCH; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RACE DIFFERENCE; RECORDING; TRANSTHORACIC ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; UNITED STATES;

ADENOSINE; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BLOOD FLOW VELOCITY; BODY MASS INDEX; CONTRAST MEDIA; CORONARY CIRCULATION; CORONARY VESSELS; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY, DOPPLER; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY, DOPPLER, COLOR; FEASIBILITY STUDIES; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFUSIONS, INTRAVENOUS; JAPAN; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OBESITY; UNITED STATES; VASODILATOR AGENTS;

EID: 14844333835     PISSN: 07422822     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.0742-2822.2005.04004.x     Document Type: Article

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