Noninvasive Evaluation of Flow Reserve in the Left Anterior Descending Coronary Artery in Patients With Cardiac Syndrome X

American Journal of Cardiology

Volumn 99, Issue 10, 2007, Pages 1378-1383

  Galiuto, Leonarda ^a   Sestito, Alfonso ^a   Barchetta, Sabrina ^a   Sgueglia, Gregory A ^a   Infusino, Fabio ^a   La Rosa, Claudio ^a   Lanza, Gaetano ^a   Crea, Filippo ^a  

^a CATHOLIC UNIVERSITY   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADENOSINE; SONOVUE;

ADULT; AGED; ANGINA PECTORIS; ARTICLE; BLOOD FLOW; BLOOD FLOW VELOCITY; BLOOD VOLUME; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTRAST ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORONARY ARTERY BLOOD FLOW; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DATA BASE; DOPPLER ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMAN; LEFT ANTERIOR DESCENDING CORONARY ARTERY; MALE; NON INVASIVE MEASUREMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PULSE WAVE; SEX DIFFERENCE; ST SEGMENT DEPRESSION; SYNDROME X;

ADENOSINE; ADULT; AGED; BLOOD FLOW VELOCITY; BLOOD VOLUME; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; CORONARY CIRCULATION; CORONARY VESSELS; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY, DOPPLER, COLOR; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MALE; MICROCIRCULATION; MICROVASCULAR ANGINA; MIDDLE AGED; REST; VASODILATOR AGENTS;

EID: 34247604033     PISSN: 00029149     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.amjcard.2006.12.070     Document Type: Article

References (13)

1. Caiati C., Montaldo C., Zedda N., Bina A., and Iliceto S. New noninvasive method for coronary flow reserve assessment: contrast-enhanced transthoracic second harmonic echo Doppler. Circulation 99 (1999) 771-778
2. Voci P., Pizzuto F., Mariano E., Puddu P.E., Sardella G., and Romeo F. Usefulness of coronary flow reserve measured by transthoracic coronary Doppler ultrasound to detect severe left anterior descending coronary artery stenosis. Am J Cardiol 92 (2003) 1320-1324
3. Hozumi T., Yoshida K., Akasaka T., Asami Y., Ogata Y., Takagi T., Kaji S., Kawamoto T., Ueda Y., and Morioka S. Noninvasive assessment of coronary flow velocity and coronary flow velocity reserve in the left anterior descending coronary artery by Doppler echocardiography. Comparison with invasive technique. J Am Coll Cardiol 32 (1998) 1251-1259
4. Vogel R., Indermuhle A., Reinhardt J., Meier P., Siegrist P.T., Namdar M., Kaufmann P.A., and Seiler C. The quantification of absolute myocardial perfusion in humans by contrast echocardiography: algorithm and validation. J Am Coll Cardiol 45 (2005) 754-762
5. Wei K., Jayaweera A.R., Firoozan S., Linka A., Skyba D.M., and Kaul S. Quantification of myocardial blood flow with ultrasound-induced destruction of microbubbles administered as a constant venous infusion. Circulation 97 (1998) 473-483
6. Galiuto L. Quantifying myocardial perfusion using contrast echocardiography. Heart 91 (2005) 133-135
7. Chauhan A., Mullins P.A., Taylor G., Petch M.C., and Schofield P.M. Both endothelium-dependent and endothelium-independent function is impaired in patients with angina pectoris and normal coronary angiograms. Eur Heart J 18 (1997) 60-68
8. Opherk D., Zebe H., Weihe E., Mall G., Durr C., Gravert B., Mehmel H.C., Schwarz F., and Kubler W. Reduced coronary dilator capacity and ultrastructural changes of the myocardium in patients with angina pectoris but normal coronary arteriograms. Circulation 63 (1981) 817-825
9. Galassi A.R., Crea F., Araujo L.I., Lammertsma A.A., Pupita G., Yamamoto Y., Rechavia E., Jones T., Kaski J.C., and Maseri A. Comparison of regional myocardial blood flow in syndrome X and one-vessel coronary artery disease. Am J Cardiol 72 (1993) 134-139
10. Panting J.R., Gatehouse P.D., Yang G.Z., Grothues F., Firmin D.N., Collins P., and Pennell D.J. Abnormal subendocardial perfusion in cardiac syndrome X detected by cardiovascular magnetic resonance imaging. N Engl J Med 346 (2002) 1948-1953
11. Egashira K., Inou T., Hirooka Y., Yamada A., Urabe Y., and Takeshita A. Evidence of impaired endothelium-dependent coronary vasodilation in patients with angina pectoris and normal coronary angiograms. N Engl J Med 328 (1993) 1659-1664
12. Hozumi T., Yoshida K., Ogata Y., Akasaka T., Asami Y., Takagi T., and Morioka S. Noninvasive assessment of significant left anterior descending coronary artery stenosis by coronary flow velocity reserve with transthoracic color Doppler echocardiography. Circulation 97 (1998) 1557-1562
13. Lanza G.A. Cardiac syndrome X: a critical overview and future perspectives. Heart 93 (2007) 159-166