Noninvasive assessment of coronary flow velocity reserve in left anterior descending artery adds diagnostic value to both clinical variables and dobutamine echocardiography: A study based on clinical practice

European Journal of Echocardiography

Volumn 6, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 251-259

  Florenciano Sánchez, Rafael ^a,b   de la Morena Valenzuela, Gonzalo ^a   Villegas García, Manuel ^a   Soria Arcos, Federico ^a   Rubio Patón, Ramón ^a   Teruel Carrillo, Francisca ^a   Hurtado, José ^a   Valdés Chávarri, Mariano ^a  

^a HOSPITAL UNIVERSITARIO VIRGEN DE LA ARRIXACA   (Spain)

^b NONE   (Spain)

Author keywords

Coronary flow velocity reserve; Dobutamine stress echocardiography; Left anterior descending artery; Transthoracic Doppler echocardiography

Indexed keywords

ATROPINE; BETA ADRENERGIC RECEPTOR BLOCKING AGENT; CALCIUM ANTAGONIST; DOBUTAMINE; NITRATE;

AGED; ANGIOCARDIOGRAPHY; ARTICLE; BLOOD FLOW VELOCITY; CLINICAL PRACTICE; CLINICAL TRIAL; CORONARY ARTERY BLOOD FLOW; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; CORONARY ARTERY OBSTRUCTION; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; DOPPLER ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE WALL MOTION; HUMAN; LEFT ANTERIOR DESCENDING CORONARY ARTERY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NON INVASIVE MEASUREMENT; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; STRESS ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY;

AGED; BLOOD FLOW VELOCITY; CORONARY ANGIOGRAPHY; CORONARY CIRCULATION; CORONARY STENOSIS; DOBUTAMINE; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY, DOPPLER; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY, STRESS; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY, TRANSESOPHAGEAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MYOCARDIAL CONTRACTION; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; VENTRICULAR FUNCTION, LEFT;

EID: 21344432792     PISSN: 15252167     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.euje.2004.10.007     Document Type: Article

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