Pressure and flow across severe stenoses: Does the intra-aortic balloon pump do its job?

American Heart Journal

Volumn 154, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 615-616

  Kern, Morton J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

OXYGEN;

ANGIOCARDIOGRAPHY; AORTA BALLOON; CORONARY ARTERY BLOOD FLOW; CORONARY ARTERY OBSTRUCTION; DIASTOLIC BLOOD PRESSURE; DOPPLER ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; EDITORIAL; HEART MUSCLE OXYGEN CONSUMPTION; HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; SYSTOLIC BLOOD PRESSURE; TRANSLUMINAL CORONARY ANGIOPLASTY;

BLOOD FLOW VELOCITY; BLOOD PRESSURE; COLLATERAL CIRCULATION; CORONARY CIRCULATION; CORONARY STENOSIS; CORONARY VESSELS; DIASTOLE; HUMANS; INTRA-AORTIC BALLOON PUMPING; MYOCARDIUM; OXYGEN; REGIONAL BLOOD FLOW; SYSTOLE;

EID: 34548742377     PISSN: 00028703     EISSN: 10976744     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ahj.2007.06.011     Document Type: Editorial

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