Assessment of Coronary Vasodilatation in Response to Nitroglycerin with Transthoracic Doppler Echocardiography

Journal of the American Society of Echocardiography

Volumn 19, Issue 6, 2006, Pages 777-780

  Sohn, Dae Won ^a   Kim, Yong Jin ^a   Kim, Hyung Kwan ^a   Kim, Kyung Yi ^b   Koo, Bon Kwon ^a   Zo, Joo Hee ^a   Kim, Hyo Soo ^a   Oh, Byung Hee ^a   Park, Young Bae ^a   Choi, Yun Shik ^a  

^a Seoul National University College of Medicine   (South Korea)

^b Seoul National University Hospital   (South Korea)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GLYCERYL TRINITRATE;

ADULT; ANGIOCARDIOGRAPHY; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORONARY ARTERY BLOOD FLOW; CORONARY ARTERY DILATATION; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DOPPLER ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMAN; INTRAVASCULAR ULTRASOUND; LEFT ANTERIOR DESCENDING CORONARY ARTERY; MALE; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; TRANSTHORACIC ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; VASODILATATION;

BLOOD FLOW VELOCITY; CORONARY ARTERIOSCLEROSIS; CORONARY CIRCULATION; CORONARY VESSELS; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY, DOPPLER; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; INFUSIONS, INTRA-ARTERIAL; MALE; NITROGLYCERIN; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; VASODILATION;

EID: 33744508129     PISSN: 08947317     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.echo.2006.01.021     Document Type: Article

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