Ultrasound brachial artery reactivity testing: Technical considerations

Journal of the American Society of Echocardiography

Volumn 17, Issue 6, 2004, Pages 697-699

  Aeschlimann, Susan E ^a   Mitchell, Carol K C ^a   Korcarz, Claudia E ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AND PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^b University of Wisconsin Health   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GLYCERYL TRINITRATE;

ANALYTICAL EQUIPMENT; ARTERY BLOOD FLOW; ARTERY INTIMA; ARTERY MEDIA; B SCAN; BLOOD PRESSURE MONITORING; BLOOD VESSEL REACTIVITY; BRACHIAL ARTERY; CONFERENCE PAPER; DOPPLER ECHOGRAPHY; ECHOGRAPHY; ELECTROCARDIOGRAM; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; FUNCTIONAL ASSESSMENT; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; MEASUREMENT; MENSTRUAL CYCLE; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PREDICTION; RECORDING; SMOKING; STIMULATION; SYSTOLIC BLOOD PRESSURE; VASCULAR ENDOTHELIUM; VASODILATATION;

BRACHIAL ARTERY; CORONARY DISEASE; ENDOTHELIUM, VASCULAR; HUMANS; HYPEREMIA; REGIONAL BLOOD FLOW; RISK ASSESSMENT; TIME FACTORS; VASODILATION;

EID: 3042792573     PISSN: 08947317     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.echo.2004.03.017     Document Type: Conference Paper

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