Reversible microvascular dysfunction coupled with persistent myocardial dysfunction: Implications for post-infarct left ventricular remodelling

Heart

Volumn 93, Issue 5, 2007, Pages 565-571

  Galiuto, Leonarda ^a,b   Gabrielli, Francesca A ^b   Lombardo, Antonella ^b   La Torre, Giuseppe ^b   Scarà, Antonio ^b   Rebuzzi, Antonio G ^b   Crea, Filippo ^b  

^a FONDAZIONE POLICLINICO UNIVERSITARIO A GEMELLI IRCCS   (Italy)

^b CATHOLIC UNIVERSITY   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE; HUMAN; MALE; MICROANGIOPATHY; MYOCARDIAL DISEASE; PERCUTANEOUS CORONARY INTERVENTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; ECHOGRAPHY; HEART CONTRACTION; HEART INFARCTION; HEART MUSCLE REVASCULARIZATION; HEART STROKE VOLUME; HEART VENTRICLE REMODELING; METHODOLOGY; MICROCIRCULATION; MIDDLE AGED; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY;

CONTRAST AGENT BR1; CONTRAST MEDIUM; DIAGNOSTIC AGENT; PHOSPHOLIPID; SULFUR HEXAFLUORIDE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

CONTRAST MEDIA; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MICROCIRCULATION; MIDDLE AGED; MYOCARDIAL CONTRACTION; MYOCARDIAL INFARCTION; MYOCARDIAL REVASCULARIZATION; PHOSPHOLIPIDS; STROKE VOLUME; SULFUR HEXAFLUORIDE; VENTRICULAR REMODELING;

EID: 34247881921     PISSN: 13556037     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/hrt.2006.091538     Document Type: Article

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