Assessment of coronary blood flow and the reactivity of the microcirculation non-invasively with transthoracic echocardiography

Clinical Physiology and Functional Imaging

Volumn 28, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 145-155

  Kiviniemi, Tuomas ^a  

^a TURKU UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Finland)

Author keywords

Blood flow velocity; Cold pressor test; Coronary flow reserve; Epicardial diameter; Microcirculation; Reactivity; Transthoracic echocardiography

Indexed keywords

ASCORBIC ACID; BETA ADRENERGIC RECEPTOR BLOCKING AGENT; CERIVASTATIN; LOSARTAN; NEBIVOLOL; NIFEDIPINE; PRAVASTATIN; PROPRANOLOL; VALSARTAN; VERAPAMIL;

ANGIOCARDIOGRAPHY; ARTERY DIAMETER; BLOOD FLOW VELOCITY; CLINICAL RESEARCH; CLINICAL TRIAL; COLD PRESSOR TEST; CONGESTIVE CARDIOMYOPATHY; CORONARY ARTERY BLOOD FLOW; CORONARY ARTERY DILATATION; CORONARY FLOW RESERVE; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; DOPPLER FLOWMETRY; DOSE RESPONSE; HEART FAILURE; HEMODYNAMIC PARAMETERS; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; HYPERTROPHIC CARDIOMYOPATHY; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MAGNETIC RESONANCE ANGIOGRAPHY; MICROCIRCULATION; NON INVASIVE MEASUREMENT; NONHUMAN; OBSERVER VARIATION; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; RED WINE; REPRODUCIBILITY; REVIEW; SINGLE DRUG DOSE; SMOKING HABIT; TRANSTHORACIC ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY;

BLOOD FLOW VELOCITY; CORONARY CIRCULATION; CORONARY VESSELS; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY, DOPPLER; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY, DOPPLER, COLOR; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY, DOPPLER, PULSED; FRACTIONAL FLOW RESERVE, MYOCARDIAL; HEART DISEASES; HUMANS; LASER-DOPPLER FLOWMETRY; MICROCIRCULATION; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; REGIONAL BLOOD FLOW; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; TEMPERATURE; TIME FACTORS; VASODILATION;

EID: 42149166109     PISSN: 14750961     EISSN: 1475097X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1475-097X.2008.00794.x     Document Type: Review

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