Role of transthoracic Doppler-determined coronary flow reserve in patients with chest pain

Circulation Journal

Volumn 71, Issue 6, 2007, Pages 891-896

  Kataoka, Yu ^a   Nakatani, Satoshi ^a   Tanaka, Norio ^a   Kanzaki, Hideaki ^a   Yasuda, Satoshi ^a   Morii, Isao ^a   Kawamura, Atsushi ^a   Miyazaki, Shunichi ^a   Kitakaze, Masafumi ^a  

^a NATIONAL CEREBRAL AND CARDIOVASCULAR CENTER   (Japan)

Author keywords

Chest pain; Coronary artery disease; Coronary flow reserve

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ANGIOCARDIOGRAPHY; ARTICLE; CORONARY ARTERY BLOOD FLOW; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; DOPPLER ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; THORAX PAIN; TRANSTHORACIC ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY;

AGED; BLOOD FLOW VELOCITY; CHEST PAIN; CORONARY CIRCULATION; CORONARY STENOSIS; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY, DOPPLER; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED;

EID: 34249682736     PISSN: 13469843     EISSN: 13474820     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1253/circj.71.891     Document Type: Article

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