Coronary flow velocity reserve measurement in three major coronary arteries using transthoracic doppler echocardiography

Echocardiography

Volumn 23, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 279-286

  Murata, Eriko ^a   Hozumi, Takeshi ^a   Matsumura, Yoshiki ^a   Fujimoto, Kohei ^a   Sugioka, Kenichi ^a   Takemoto, Yasuhiko ^a   Watanabe, Hiroyuki ^a   Yamagishi, Hiroyuki ^a   Yoshiyama, Minoru ^a   Iwao, Hiroshi ^a   Yoshikawa, Junichi ^a  

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

Author keywords

Coronary flow velocity reserve; Myocardial ischemia; Transthoracic Doppler echocardiography

Indexed keywords

THALLIUM 201;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BLOOD FLOW VELOCITY; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORONARY ARTERY; CORONARY ARTERY BLOOD FLOW; CORONARY ARTERY CIRCUMFLEX BRANCH; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DOPPLER ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HEART BLOOD VESSEL; HEART MUSCLE ISCHEMIA; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; LEFT ANTERIOR DESCENDING CORONARY ARTERY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NON INVASIVE PROCEDURE; OUTPATIENT DEPARTMENT; PATIENT REFERRAL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTER TOMOGRAPHY; STANDARD; THORAX PAIN; TRANSTHORACIC ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY;

ADENOSINE TRIPHOSPHATE; AGED; BLOOD FLOW VELOCITY; CORONARY CIRCULATION; CORONARY VESSELS; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY, DOPPLER, COLOR; EXERCISE TEST; FEMALE; HUMANS; HYPEREMIA; MALE; MYOCARDIAL ISCHEMIA; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; THALLIUM RADIOISOTOPES; TOMOGRAPHY, EMISSION-COMPUTED, SINGLE-PHOTON;

EID: 33645323513     PISSN: 07422822     EISSN: 15408175     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1540-8175.2006.00206.x     Document Type: Article

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