Demonstration of recanalized left coronary artery after thrombolysis by transthoracic echocardiography

Journal of the American Society of Echocardiography

Volumn 18, Issue 6, 2005, Pages 686-692

  Anjaneyulu, Anne ^a,b   Raghavaraju, Penumatsa ^a   Krishnaswamy, Raghu ^a   Johann, Christopher ^a   Krishnamraju, Penmetcha ^a   Rajagopalaraju, Alluri ^a   Somaraju, Bhupathiraju ^a  

^a CARE Hospital   (India)

^b CARE HOSPITAL   (India)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FIBRINOLYTIC AGENT; INOTROPIC AGENT; STREPTOKINASE; UROKINASE;

ACUTE HEART INFARCTION; ADULT; AGED; ANGIOCARDIOGRAPHY; ARTICLE; BLOOD FLOW VELOCITY; CARDIOVERSION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COLOR ULTRASOUND FLOWMETRY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORONARY ARTERY BLOOD FLOW; CORONARY ARTERY BYPASS GRAFT; CORONARY ARTERY CIRCUMFLEX BRANCH; CORONARY ARTERY OBSTRUCTION; CORONARY ARTERY RECANALIZATION; CORONARY STENT; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; FEMALE; FIBRINOLYTIC THERAPY; HEART VENTRICLE FIBRILLATION; HUMAN; LEFT ANTERIOR DESCENDING CORONARY ARTERY; MALE; TRANSLUMINAL CORONARY ANGIOPLASTY; TRANSTHORACIC ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; TURBULENT FLOW;

ADULT; AGED; CORONARY VESSELS; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; FEASIBILITY STUDIES; FEMALE; FIBRINOLYTIC AGENTS; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MYOCARDIAL INFARCTION; RECOVERY OF FUNCTION; THROMBOLYTIC THERAPY; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 20444431183     PISSN: 08947317     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.echo.2004.08.047     Document Type: Article

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