New noninvasive diagnosis of myocardial ischemia of the left circumflex coronary artery using coronary flow reserve measurement by transthoracic Doppler echocardiography: Comparison with thallium-201 single photon emission computed tomography

Journal of Cardiology

Volumn 43, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 109-116

  Fujimoto, Kohei ^a   Watanabe, Hiroyuki ^a   Hozumi, Takeshi ^a   Otsuka, Ryo ^a   Hirata, Kumiko ^a   Yamagishi, Hiroyuki ^a   Yoshiyama, Minoru ^a   Yoshikawa, Junichi ^a  

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

Author keywords

Blood flow Coronary artery disease; Doppler ultrasound (coronary flow velocity, coronary flow reserve); Echocardiography, transthoracic

Indexed keywords

THALLIUM 201; DIAGNOSTIC AGENT; RADIOPHARMACEUTICAL AGENT; THALLIUM;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CALCULATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORONARY ARTERY BLOOD FLOW; CORONARY ARTERY CIRCUMFLEX BRANCH; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; DOPPLER ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE; HEART MUSCLE ISCHEMIA; HUMAN; HYPEREMIA; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NON INVASIVE MEASUREMENT; SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTER TOMOGRAPHY; TRANSTHORACIC ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; BLOOD FLOW VELOCITY; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CORONARY BLOOD VESSEL; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; ECHOGRAPHY; EVALUATION; EXERCISE TEST; HEART VENTRICLE; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; OBSERVER VARIATION; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; SCINTISCANNING;

AGED; BLOOD FLOW VELOCITY; CORONARY CIRCULATION; CORONARY VESSELS; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY, DOPPLER; EXERCISE TEST; HEART VENTRICLES; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MYOCARDIAL ISCHEMIA; OBSERVER VARIATION; RADIOPHARMACEUTICALS; THALLIUM RADIOISOTOPES; TOMOGRAPHY, EMISSION-COMPUTED, SINGLE-PHOTON;

EID: 2642537688     PISSN: 09145087     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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