Detection of severe stenosis and total occlusion in the left anterior descending coronary artery with transthoracic doppler echocardiography in the emergency room

Echocardiography

Volumn 26, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 15-20

  Tani, Tomoko ^a   Tanabe, Kazuaki ^a   Kitai, Takeshi ^a   Yamane, Takafumi ^a   Kureha, Fumie ^a   Katayama, Minako ^a   Tamita, Koichi ^a   Kaji, Shuichiro ^a   Oda, Tomoyuki ^a   Ehara, Natsuhiko ^a   Kinoshita, Makoto ^a   Yamamuro, Atsushi ^a   Morioka, Shigefumi ^a   Kihara, Yasuki ^a  

^a KOBE CITY MEDICAL CENTER GENERAL HOSPITAL   (Japan)

Author keywords

Coronary flow imaging; Doppler echocardiography; Ischemic heart disease; Transthoracic echocardiography

Indexed keywords

DOBUTAMINE;

ACUTE CORONARY SYNDROME; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORONARY ARTERY OBSTRUCTION; DIASTOLIC BLOOD PRESSURE; DISEASE SEVERITY; DOPPLER ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; EMERGENCY WARD; FEASIBILITY STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; PERCUTANEOUS CORONARY INTERVENTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SYSTOLIC BLOOD PRESSURE; THORAX PAIN; TRANSTHORACIC ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY;

AGED; CAROTID STENOSIS; CORONARY ANGIOGRAPHY; CORONARY OCCLUSION; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY, DOPPLER; EMERGENCY MEDICINE; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES;

EID: 58149194982     PISSN: 07422822     EISSN: 15408175     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1540-8175.2008.00737.x     Document Type: Article

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