Impaired left ventricle filling in slow coronary flow phenomenon: An echo-Doppler study

Angiology

Volumn 56, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 397-401

  Sezgin, Alpay Turan ^a,b   Topal, Ergun ^a,b   Barutcu, Irfan ^a,b   Ozdemir, Ramazan ^a,b   Gullu, Hakan ^a,b   Bariskaner, Emrah ^a,b   Ermis, Necip ^a,b   Tandogan, Izzet ^a,b   Acikgoz, Nusret ^a,b   Sivri, Nasir ^a,b  

^a Inonu University ^*

^b BASKENT UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANGIOGRAPHY; ARTICLE; BLOOD FLOW VELOCITY; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COLOR ULTRASOUND FLOWMETRY; CORONARY ARTERY BLOOD FLOW; DOPPLER ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HEART ATRIUM CONTRACTION; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE FILLING; HUMAN; M MODE ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; MALE; PULSE WAVE; SYSTOLE; TRANSTHORACIC ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY;

ADULT; DIASTOLE; ENDOTHELIUM, VASCULAR; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MYOCARDIAL CONTRACTION; SYSTOLE; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, DOPPLER; VENTRICULAR DYSFUNCTION, LEFT;

EID: 22844442031     PISSN: 00033197     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/000331970505600406     Document Type: Article

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