Feasibility and diagnostic power of transthoracic coronary Doppler for coronary flow velocity reserve in patients referred for myocardial perfusion imaging

Cardiovascular Ultrasound

Volumn 6, Issue , 2008, Pages

  Maret, Eva ^a   Engvall, Jan ^b   Nylander, Eva ^b   Ohlsson, Jan ^a  

^a RYHOV COUNTY HOSPITAL   (Sweden)

^b LINKÖPING UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADENOSINE; TETROFOSMIN TC 99M;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; CORONARY FLOW RESERVE; DIABETES MELLITUS; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; FEMALE; HEART MUSCLE ISCHEMIA; HEART MUSCLE PERFUSION; HEART SCINTISCANNING; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; LEFT ANTERIOR DESCENDING CORONARY ARTERY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTER TOMOGRAPHY; STRESS; THORAX PAIN; TRANSTHORACIC ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CORONARY BLOOD VESSEL; DOPPLER ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; ECHOGRAPHY; EVALUATION; FEASIBILITY STUDY; FRACTIONAL FLOW RESERVE; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE FUNCTION; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; REPRODUCIBILITY; SCINTISCANNING;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; CORONARY VESSELS; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY, DOPPLER; FEASIBILITY STUDIES; FEMALE; FRACTIONAL FLOW RESERVE, MYOCARDIAL; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TOMOGRAPHY, EMISSION-COMPUTED, SINGLE-PHOTON; VENTRICULAR DYSFUNCTION, LEFT;

EID: 42149161909     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14767120     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1476-7120-6-12     Document Type: Article

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