Coronary artery flow velocity profile measured by transthoracic Doppler echocardiography predicts myocardial viability after acute myocardial infarction

Heart

Volumn 93, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 456-457

  Saraste, Antti ^a   Koskenvuo, Juha W ^a   Saraste, Markku ^a   Pärkkä, Jussi ^a   Toikka, Jyri ^a   Naum, Alexandra ^b   Ukkonen, Heikki ^a,b   Knuuti, Juhani ^b   Airaksinen, Juhani ^a   Hartiala, Jaakko ^a  

^a TURKU UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Finland)

^b TURKU PET CENTRE   (Finland)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

FLUORODEOXYGLUCOSE F 18;

ACUTE HEART INFARCTION; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CELL VIABILITY; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORONARY ARTERY BLOOD FLOW; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; DECELERATION; DIASTOLIC BLOOD PRESSURE; HEART MUSCLE CELL; HUMAN; LEFT ANTERIOR DESCENDING CORONARY ARTERY; PATIENT SELECTION; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; ST SEGMENT ELEVATION; TRANSLUMINAL CORONARY ANGIOPLASTY; TRANSTHORACIC ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY;

BLOOD FLOW VELOCITY; CORONARY CIRCULATION; CORONARY VESSELS; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY, DOPPLER; FEMALE; FLUORODEOXYGLUCOSE F18; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MYOCARDIAL INFARCTION; MYOCARDIAL REPERFUSION; POSITRON-EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; RADIOPHARMACEUTICALS;

EID: 34247342554     PISSN: 13556037     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/hrt.2006.094995     Document Type: Article

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