Effects of high thoracic epidural analgesia on myocardial blood flow in patients with ischemic heart disease

Circulation

Volumn 111, Issue 17, 2005, Pages 2165-2170

  Nygård, Eigil ^a   Kofoed, Klaus F ^a   Freiberg, Jacob ^a   Holm, Søren ^a   Aldershvile, Jan ^a   Eliasen, Kirsten ^a   Kelbæk, Henning ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Analgesia, epidural; Blood flow, myocardial; Ischemia, myocardial

Indexed keywords

BUPIVACAINE; DIPYRIDAMOLE;

ADRENERGIC STIMULATION; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COLD PRESSOR TEST; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORONARY ARTERY OBSTRUCTION; CORONARY VASCULAR RESISTANCE; EPIDURAL CATHETER; HEART MUSCLE; HEART MUSCLE BLOOD FLOW; HUMAN; ISCHEMIC HEART DISEASE; MALE; NERVE BLOCK; PRIORITY JOURNAL; THORACIC SPINE; THORAX EPIDURAL ANESTHESIA; VASODILATATION;

AGED; ANALGESIA, EPIDURAL; BLOOD FLOW VELOCITY; BUPIVACAINE; CORONARY CIRCULATION; HEART; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MYOCARDIAL ISCHEMIA; NERVE BLOCK; POSITRON-EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; SYMPATHETIC NERVOUS SYSTEM; THORAX; VASCULAR RESISTANCE;

EID: 18244364845     PISSN: 00097322     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1161/01.CIR.0000163551.33812.1A     Document Type: Article

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