Correlation between distal left anterior descending artery flow velocity by transthoracic Doppler echocardiography and corrected TIMI frame count before mechanical reperfusion in patients with anterior acute myocardial infarction

Circulation Journal

Volumn 69, Issue 9, 2005, Pages 1022-1028

  Lee, Souki ^b   Otsuji, Yutaka ^a   Minagoe, Shinichi ^b   Hamasaki, Shuichi ^b   Toyonaga, Koichi ^b   Obata, Hachiro ^b   Takumi, Takuro ^b   Arimura, Hiroshi ^b   Miyata, Masaaki ^b   Biro, Sadatoshi ^b   Toda, Hitoshi ^b   Tei, Chuwa ^b  

^a KAGOSHIMA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b NONE

Author keywords

Acute myocardial infarction; Coronary reperfusion; Echocardiography

Indexed keywords

ACUTE HEART INFARCTION; ADULT; AGED; ANGIOCARDIOGRAPHY; ARTICLE; BLOOD CLOT LYSIS; BLOOD FLOW VELOCITY; COLOR ULTRASOUND FLOWMETRY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; DIASTOLE; DOPPLER ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; LEFT ANTERIOR DESCENDING CORONARY ARTERY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; REPERFUSION; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TRANSTHORACIC ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY;

AGED; CORONARY CIRCULATION; CORONARY VESSELS; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY, DOPPLER; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MYOCARDIAL INFARCTION; MYOCARDIAL REPERFUSION;

EID: 27744604063     PISSN: 13469843     EISSN: 13474820     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1253/circj.69.1022     Document Type: Article

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