Physiologic assessment of coronary artery stenosis without stress tests: Noninvasive analysis of phasic flow characteristics by transthoracic doppler echocardiography

Journal of the American Society of Echocardiography

Volumn 18, Issue 9, 2005, Pages 949-955

  Daimon, Masao ^a   Watanabe, Hiroyuki ^b   Yamagishi, Hiroyuki ^b   Kuwabara, Yoichi ^a   Hasegawa, Rei ^a   Toyoda, Tomohiko ^a   Yoshida, Katsuya ^a   Yoshikawa, Junichi ^b   Komuro, Issei ^a  

^a CHIBA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b OSAKA CITY UNIVERSITY GRADUATE SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

THALLIUM 201;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BLOOD FLOW VELOCITY; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORONARY ARTERY BLOOD FLOW; CORONARY ARTERY OBSTRUCTION; DIASTOLE; DISEASE SEVERITY; DOPPLER ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; EXERCISE TEST; FEMALE; HEART MUSCLE PERFUSION; HUMAN; LEFT ANTERIOR DESCENDING CORONARY ARTERY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NON INVASIVE MEASUREMENT; PHYSIOLOGY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTER TOMOGRAPHY; SYSTOLE; TRANSTHORACIC ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY;

CORONARY CIRCULATION; CORONARY STENOSIS; CORONARY VESSELS; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY, DOPPLER; EXERCISE TEST; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; SINGLE-BLIND METHOD;

EID: 24344469115     PISSN: 08947317     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.echo.2005.01.006     Document Type: Article

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