Nitrate-induced coronary vasodilation by stress-magnetic resonance imaging: A novel noninvasive test of coronary vasomotion

Journal of Magnetic Resonance Imaging

Volumn 20, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 390-394

  Pepe, Alessia ^a   Lombardi, Massimo ^b   Takacs, Imola ^b   Positano, Vincenzo ^b   Panzarella, Gaetano ^a   Picano, Eugenio ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PALERMO   (Italy)

^b INSTITUTE OF CLINICAL PHYSIOLOGY   (Italy)

Author keywords

Coronary vasodilation; Magnetic resonance angiography; Nitrate; Smooth muscle cell; Stress

Indexed keywords

GLYCERYL TRINITRATE; NITRATE;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BLOOD VESSEL REACTIVITY; CLINICAL TRIAL; CORONARY ARTERY DILATATION; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; FEMALE; HEART CATHETERIZATION; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LEFT ANTERIOR DESCENDING CORONARY ARTERY; MAGNETIC RESONANCE ANGIOGRAPHY; MALE; NON INVASIVE MEASUREMENT; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; RIGHT CORONARY ARTERY;

ADULT; CORONARY VESSELS; FEASIBILITY STUDIES; FEMALE; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE ANGIOGRAPHY; MALE; NITROGLYCERIN; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; STATISTICS, NONPARAMETRIC; VASODILATOR AGENTS;

EID: 4344713273     PISSN: 10531807     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/jmri.20136     Document Type: Article

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