Handgrip-enhanced myocardial fractional flow reserve for assessment of coronary artery stenoses

American Heart Journal

Volumn 151, Issue 5, 2006, Pages 1107.e1-1107.e7

  Katritsis, Demosthenes G ^a,b   Korovesis, Socrates ^a   Karvouni, Evangelia ^a   Giazitzoglou, Eleftherios ^a   Karabinos, Ilias ^a   Tzanalaridou, Efthalia ^a   Panagiotakos, Demosthenes ^a   Webb Peploe, Michael M ^b  

^a Athens Euroclinic   (Greece)

^b ST THOMAS HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DOBUTAMINE; CARDIOTONIC AGENT; DIAGNOSTIC AGENT;

ADULT; ANGINA PECTORIS; ANGIOCARDIOGRAPHY; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL ASSESSMENT; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORONARY ARTERY OBSTRUCTION; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; EXERCISE; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; FRACTIONAL FLOW RESERVE; HAND GRIP; HEART HEMODYNAMICS; HEART INDEX; HEART MUSCLE BLOOD FLOW; HEART MUSCLE ISCHEMIA; HUMAN; ISOMETRIC EXERCISE; MALE; PERCUTANEOUS CORONARY INTERVENTION; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STRESS ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; CORONARY ARTERY BLOOD FLOW; EVALUATION; MIDDLE AGED; PREDICTION AND FORECASTING; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

ANGINA PECTORIS; CARDIOTONIC AGENTS; CORONARY ANGIOGRAPHY; CORONARY CIRCULATION; CORONARY STENOSIS; DOBUTAMINE; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY, STRESS; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HAND STRENGTH; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MYOCARDIAL ISCHEMIA; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

EID: 33646108813     PISSN: 00028703     EISSN: 10976744     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ahj.2005.09.023     Document Type: Article

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