High left ventricular mass index does not limit the utility of fractional flow reserve for the physiologic assessment of lesion severity

Journal of Invasive Cardiology

Volumn 18, Issue 11, 2006, Pages 544-549

  Chhatriwalla, Adnan K ^a   Ragosta, Michael ^a   Powers, Eric R ^b   Sarembock, Ian J ^a   Gimple, Lawrence W ^a   Fischer, Joshua J ^a   Barringhaus, Kurt G ^c   Kramer, Christopher M ^d   Samady, Habib ^e,f  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA HEALTH SYSTEM   (United States)

^b MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA   (United States)

^e EMORY UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^f EMORY UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANGIOGRAPHY; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL FEATURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DIABETES MELLITUS; DISEASE SEVERITY; FEMALE; FRACTIONAL FLOW RESERVE; HEART INDEX; HEART INJURY; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE EJECTION FRACTION; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE MASS; HEART VENTRICULOGRAPHY; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; MALE; MEASUREMENT; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE; PHYSIOLOGY; RISK FACTOR; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS;

BLOOD FLOW VELOCITY; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; CORONARY ANGIOGRAPHY; CORONARY STENOSIS; FEMALE; FRACTIONAL FLOW RESERVE, MYOCARDIAL; HUMANS; HYPERTROPHY, LEFT VENTRICULAR; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; PROBABILITY; RADIONUCLIDE VENTRICULOGRAPHY; REFERENCE VALUES; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; SINGLE-BLIND METHOD; STROKE VOLUME;

EID: 33750742499     PISSN: 10423931     EISSN: 15572501     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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