Transthoracic Doppler echocardiography assessment of left anterior descending artery flow in patients with previous anterior myocardial infarction

European Journal of Echocardiography

Volumn 9, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 363-367

  Karatasakis, George ^a   Leontiadis, Evaggelos ^a   Papadakis, Emmanuil ^a   Koutsogiannis, Nikolaos ^a   Athanassopoulos, George ^a   Spargias, Konstantinos ^a   Poldermans, Don ^b   Karagiannis, Stefanos E ^a   Cokkinos, Dennis V ^a  

^a ONASSIS CARDIAC SURGERY CENTER   (Greece)

^b ERASMUS MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

LAD flow; Transthoracic echocardiography

Indexed keywords

ACUTE CORONARY SYNDROME; ADULT; AGED; ANGIOCARDIOGRAPHY; ARTERY BLOOD FLOW; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIASTOLIC BLOOD PRESSURE; DOPPLER ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; FLOW RATE; HEART; HEART INFARCTION; HUMAN; LEFT ANTERIOR DESCENDING CORONARY ARTERY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REPERFUSION; SCAR; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TRANSTHORACIC ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY;

AGED; BLOOD PRESSURE; CORONARY CIRCULATION; CORONARY VESSELS; DIASTOLE; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY, DOPPLER; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MYOCARDIAL INFARCTION;

EID: 43449086698     PISSN: 15252167     EISSN: 15322114     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.euje.2007.06.001     Document Type: Article

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