Significance of the Distal to Proximal Coronary Flow Velocity Ratio by Transthoracic Doppler Echocardiography for Diagnosis of Proximal Left Coronary Artery Stenosis

Journal of the American Society of Echocardiography

Volumn 21, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 756-760

  Okayama, Hideki ^a   Nishimura, Kazuhisa ^a   Saito, Makoto ^a   Inoue, Katsuji ^b   Hiasa, Go ^b   Sumimoto, Takumi ^b   Ogimoto, Akiyoshi ^a   Ohtsuka, Tomoaki ^a   Shigematsu, Yuji ^a   Higaki, Jitsuo ^a  

^a EHIME UNIVERSITY GRADUATE SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^b Kitaishikai Hospital   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ANGIOCARDIOGRAPHY; ARTICLE; CORONARY ARTERY BLOOD FLOW; CORONARY ARTERY OBSTRUCTION; DOPPLER ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; LEFT CORONARY ARTERY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TRANSTHORACIC ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY;

AGED; BLOOD FLOW VELOCITY; CORONARY ANGIOGRAPHY; CORONARY CIRCULATION; CORONARY STENOSIS; CORONARY VESSELS; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY, DOPPLER, COLOR; FEASIBILITY STUDIES; FEMALE; HEMODYNAMICS; HUMANS; MALE;

EID: 44149116021     PISSN: 08947317     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.echo.2007.08.052     Document Type: Article

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