Effect of ectasia size or the ectasia ratio on the thrombosis in myocardial infarction frame count in patients with isolated coronary artery ectasia

Heart and Vessels

Volumn 20, Issue 5, 2005, Pages 199-202

  Kosar, Feridun ^a   Acikgoz, Nusret ^a   Sahin, Ibrahim ^a   Topal, Ergun ^a   Aksoy, Yuksel ^a   Cehreli, Sengul ^a  

^a INONU UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

Coronary artery ectasia; Ectasia diameter; Ectasia ratio; Flow velocity

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ANGIOCARDIOGRAPHY; ARTERY DIAMETER; ARTICLE; CALCULATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORONARY ARTERY ANEURYSM; CORONARY ARTERY BLOOD FLOW; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DOPPLER FLOWMETRY; FEMALE; HEART INFARCTION; HUMAN; INTRACARDIAC THROMBOSIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RIGHT CORONARY ARTERY;

BLOOD FLOW VELOCITY; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; CHI-SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; CORONARY ANGIOGRAPHY; CORONARY CIRCULATION; CORONARY VESSELS; DILATATION, PATHOLOGIC; FEMALE; HEART ANEURYSM; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MYOCARDIAL INFARCTION; STATISTICS, NONPARAMETRIC; THROMBOSIS;

EID: 25844512561     PISSN: 09108327     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00380-005-0831-y     Document Type: Article

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