Noninvasive assessment of coronary flow reserve in the left anterior descending artery by transthoracic echocardiography before and after stenting

Echocardiography

Volumn 24, Issue 8, 2007, Pages 789-794

  Chammas, Elie ^a   Dib, Chadi ^b   Rahhal, Maya ^b   Helou, Toni ^b   Ghanem, Georges ^c   Tarcha, Walid ^c  

^a CLEMENCEAU MEDICAL CENTER   (Lebanon)

^b LEBANESE UNIVERSITY   (Lebanon)

^c RIZK HOSPITAL   (Lebanon)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADENOSINE;

ADULT; AGED; ANGIOCARDIOGRAPHY; ARTERY TONE; ARTICLE; ATRIOVENTRICULAR BLOCK; BRADYCARDIA; BRONCHOSPASM; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; CONVALESCENCE; CORONARY ARTERY BLOOD FLOW; CORONARY ARTERY OBSTRUCTION; CORONARY ARTERY PRESSURE; CORONARY STENT; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; DIZZINESS; DOPPLER ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; FEASIBILITY STUDY; FEMALE; FLUSHING; FOLLOW UP; HEART ARRHYTHMIA; HEART PERFUSION; HUMAN; HYPEREMIA; HYPERPNEA; HYPOTENSION; LEFT ANTERIOR DESCENDING CORONARY ARTERY; MALE; NON INVASIVE MEASUREMENT; PERFUSION PRESSURE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESTENOSIS; SIDE EFFECT; TRANSLUMINAL CORONARY ANGIOPLASTY; TRANSTHORACIC ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY;

AGED; BLOOD FLOW VELOCITY; CORONARY ANGIOGRAPHY; CORONARY CIRCULATION; CORONARY DISEASE; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY, DOPPLER; FEASIBILITY STUDIES; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; STENTS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 34548354896     PISSN: 07422822     EISSN: 15408175     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1540-8175.2007.00478.x     Document Type: Article

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