Relationship between slow coronary flow and left atrial appendage blood flow velocities

Echocardiography

Volumn 24, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 9-13

  Demirbag, Recep ^a,c   Gur, Mustafa ^a   Yilmaz, Remzi ^a   Arslan, Sukru ^b   Guler, Niyazi ^b  

^a HARRAN UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

^b YUZUNCU YIL UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

^c PK: 112   (Turkey)

Author keywords

Left atrial appendage; Slow coronary flow phenomenon; Transesophageal echocardiography

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANGIOCARDIOGRAPHY; ARTICLE; BIVARIATE ANALYSIS; BLOOD FLOW VELOCITY; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DOPPLER ECHOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HEART ATRIUM APPENDAGE; HUMAN; MALE; MULTIPLE LINEAR REGRESSION ANALYSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PULMONARY VEIN; SLOW CORONARY FLOW; VASCULAR DISEASE; VEIN BLOOD FLOW;

ADULT; ATRIAL APPENDAGE; BLOOD FLOW VELOCITY; CORONARY ANGIOGRAPHY; CORONARY CIRCULATION; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY, TRANSESOPHAGEAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, DOPPLER;

EID: 33846001968     PISSN: 07422822     EISSN: 15408175     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1540-8175.2006.00343.x     Document Type: Article

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