Evaluation of Blood Flow Reserve in Left Anterior Descending Coronary Artery Territory by Quantitative Myocardial Contrast and Doppler Echocardiography

Journal of the American Society of Echocardiography

Volumn 20, Issue 6, 2007, Pages 709-716

  Osório, Altamiro Filho Ferraz ^a   Tsutsui, Jeane Mike ^a   Kowatsch, Ingrid ^a   Guerra, Vitor Coimbra ^a   Ramires, Jose Antônio Franchini ^a   Lemos, Pedro Alves ^a   Cesar, Luiz Antĉnio Machado ^a   Mathias Jr , Wilson ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADENOSINE;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CONTRAST ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; CORONARY ARTERY BLOOD FLOW; CORONARY ARTERY OBSTRUCTION; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC APPROACH ROUTE; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; DOPPLER ECHOGRAPHY; EXERCISE TEST; FEMALE; HEART MUSCLE BLOOD FLOW; HEART MUSCLE PERFUSION; HUMAN; LEFT ANTERIOR DESCENDING CORONARY ARTERY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEASUREMENT; QUALITATIVE ANALYSIS; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; REAL TIME ECHOGRAPHY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SOUND INTENSITY; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; TRANSTHORACIC ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY;

CORONARY STENOSIS; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY, DOPPLER; FEMALE; FRACTIONAL FLOW RESERVE, MYOCARDIAL; HUMANS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; VENTRICULAR DYSFUNCTION, LEFT;

EID: 34249288999     PISSN: 08947317     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.echo.2006.11.016     Document Type: Article

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