Transthoracic Doppler echocardiographic coronary flow imaging in identification of left anterior descending coronary artery stenosis in patients with left bundle branch block

Echocardiography

Volumn 25, Issue 10, 2008, Pages 1065-1070

  Soylu, Ozer ^a,b   Celik, Seden ^a   Karakus, Gultekin ^a   Yildirim, Aydin ^a   Ergelen, Mehmet ^a   Zencirci, Ertugrul ^a   Aksu, Huseyin ^a   Tezel, Tuna ^a  

^a DR SIYAMI ERSEK THORACIC AND CARDIOVASCULAR SURGERY TRAINING AND RESEARCH HOSPITAL   (Turkey)

^b NONE   (Turkey)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

THALLIUM;

ADULT; ANGIOCARDIOGRAPHY; ARTICLE; BLOOD FLOW VELOCITY; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORONARY ARTERY BLOOD FLOW; CORONARY ARTERY OBSTRUCTION; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; DIASTOLE; DOPPLER ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; DOPPLER FLOWMETRY; FEMALE; HEART LEFT BUNDLE BRANCH BLOCK; HEART MUSCLE PERFUSION; HEART SCINTISCANNING; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; LEFT ANTERIOR DESCENDING CORONARY ARTERY; LEFT ANTERIOR DESCENDING CORONARY ARTERY STENOSIS; MALE; NON INVASIVE MEASUREMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIODIAGNOSIS; SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTER TOMOGRAPHY; TRANSTHORACIC ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY;

BUNDLE-BRANCH BLOCK; CORONARY STENOSIS; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY, DOPPLER; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MYOCARDIAL PERFUSION IMAGING; OBSERVER VARIATION; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS;

EID: 54849420315     PISSN: 07422822     EISSN: 15408175     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1540-8175.2008.00729.x     Document Type: Article

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