The Emerging Role of Multi-Detector Computed Tomography in Heart Failure

Journal of Cardiac Failure

Volumn 13, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 215-226

  Butler, Javed ^a  

^a EMORY UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Angiography; Heart failure; Ventricular function

Indexed keywords

ATENOLOL; GLYCERYL TRINITRATE; METOPROLOL; SILDENAFIL;

ANGIOCARDIOGRAPHY; ATHEROSCLEROTIC PLAQUE; CONGENITAL HEART DISEASE; CORONARY ARTERY BLOOD FLOW; HEART FAILURE; HEART GRAFT; HEART INFARCTION; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE EJECTION FRACTION; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE SIZE; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE VOLUME; HEART RIGHT VENTRICLE FUNCTION; HEART VENTRICLE WALL MOTION; HUMAN; MULTIDETECTOR COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PULMONARY VEIN; RECOMMENDED DRUG DOSE; REPRODUCIBILITY; REVIEW; VEIN BLOOD FLOW;

CALCINOSIS; CARDIOMYOPATHIES; CORONARY ANGIOGRAPHY; CORONARY ARTERIOSCLEROSIS; HEART ATRIA; HEART DEFECTS, CONGENITAL; HEART FAILURE, CONGESTIVE; HEART TRANSPLANTATION; HEART VALVES; HEART VENTRICLES; HUMANS; PERICARDIUM; PULMONARY VEINS; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 34247127344     PISSN: 10719164     EISSN: 15328414     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cardfail.2006.11.014     Document Type: Review

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