PET-measured responses of MBF to cold pressor testing correlate with indices of coronary vasomotion on quantitative coronary angiography

Journal of Nuclear Medicine

Volumn 45, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 419-428

  Schindler, Thomas H ^a,b   Nitzsche, Egbert U ^b   Olschewski, Manfred ^c   Brink, Ingo ^b   Mix, Michael ^b   Prior, John ^a   Facta, Alvaro ^a   Inubushi, Massayuki ^a   Just, Hanjoerg ^b   Schelbert, Heinrich R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF FREIBURG   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF FREIBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Blood flow; Cold pressor test; Endothelium, PET; Vasoconstriction

Indexed keywords

AMMONIA N 13; DIAGNOSTIC AGENT;

ADULT; ANGIOCARDIOGRAPHY; ARTICLE; CARDIOVASCULAR RISK; COLD PRESSOR TEST; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HEART MUSCLE BLOOD FLOW; HUMAN; HYPERCHOLESTEROLEMIA; HYPERTENSION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; BLOOD FLOW VELOCITY; CLINICAL TRIAL; COLD; COMPARATIVE STUDY; COMPUTER ASSISTED EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CORONARY ARTERY ATHEROSCLEROSIS; CORONARY BLOOD VESSEL; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PERICARDIUM; RADIOGRAPHY; REPRODUCIBILITY; SCINTISCANNING; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; STATISTICS; VALIDATION STUDY; VASCULAR ENDOTHELIUM; VASOCONSTRICTION;

BLOOD FLOW VELOCITY; COLD; CORONARY ANGIOGRAPHY; CORONARY ARTERIOSCLEROSIS; CORONARY VESSELS; ENDOTHELIUM, VASCULAR; FEMALE; HUMANS; HYPERCHOLESTEROLEMIA; HYPERTENSION; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PERICARDIUM; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; STATISTICS; TOMOGRAPHY, EMISSION-COMPUTED; VASOCONSTRICTION;

EID: 2342569644     PISSN: 01615505     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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