Coronary flow reserve is impaired in patients with aortic valve calcification

Atherosclerosis

Volumn 197, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 846-852

  Bozbas, Huseyin ^a   Pirat, Bahar ^a   Yildirir, Aylin ^a   Şimşek, Vahide ^a   Sade, Elif ^a   Eroglu, Serpil ^a   Atar, Ilyas ^a   Altin, Cihan ^a   Demirtas, Saadet ^a   Ozin, Bulent ^a   Muderrisoglu, Haldun ^a  

^a BASKENT UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

Aortic valve calcification; Atherosclerosis; Coronary flow reserve

Indexed keywords

DIPYRIDAMOLE;

ADULT; AGED; AORTA VALVE; ARTICLE; ATHEROSCLEROSIS; BLOOD FLOW VELOCITY; CALCIFICATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORONARY FLOW RESERVE; DOPPLER ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; ENDOTHELIAL DYSFUNCTION; FEMALE; HEART EJECTION FRACTION; HUMAN; HYPEREMIA; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

AGED; AORTIC VALVE STENOSIS; ATHEROSCLEROSIS; CALCINOSIS; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY, DOPPLER, COLOR; EXERCISE TEST; FEMALE; FRACTIONAL FLOW RESERVE, MYOCARDIAL; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED;

EID: 40949152335     PISSN: 00219150     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.atherosclerosis.2007.07.036     Document Type: Article

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