Assessing coronary blood flow with TIMI frame count method in isolated myocardial bridging

Angiology

Volumn 58, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 283-288

  Barutcu, Irfan ^a,c   Sezgin, Alpay Turan ^b   Gullu, Hakan ^b   Turkmen, Muhsin ^a   Esen, Ali Metin ^a  

^a KOSUYOLU HEART AND RESEARCH HOSPITAL   (Turkey)

^b BASKENT UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

^c NONE   (Turkey)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANGIOCARDIOGRAPHY; ARTICLE; BLOOD FLOW VELOCITY; BLOOD PRESSURE; BODY MASS; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORONARY ARTERY ANOMALY; CORONARY ARTERY BLOOD FLOW; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; FEMALE; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE CONTRACTION; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE EJECTION FRACTION; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE SIZE; HEART VENTRICLE HYPERTROPHY; HUMAN; MALE; MYOCARDIAL BRIDGING;

ADULT; BLOOD FLOW VELOCITY; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; CINEANGIOGRAPHY; CORONARY ANGIOGRAPHY; CORONARY CIRCULATION; CORONARY VESSEL ANOMALIES; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OBSERVER VARIATION; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS;

EID: 34250718693     PISSN: 00033197     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0003319707302450     Document Type: Article

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