Transthoracic echocardiography in the detection of chronic total coronary artery occlusion

European Journal of Echocardiography

Volumn 10, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 62-68

  Boshchenko, Alla A ^a   Vrublevsky, Alexander V ^a   Karpov, Rostislav S ^a  

^a CARDIOLOGY RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Russian Federation)

Author keywords

Chronic total coronary occlusion; Coronary blood flow; Transthoracic echocardiography

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANGINA PECTORIS; ANGIOCARDIOGRAPHY; ARTICLE; COLLATERAL CIRCULATION; COLOR ULTRASOUND FLOWMETRY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORONARY ARTERY BLOOD FLOW; CORONARY ARTERY CIRCUMFLEX BRANCH; FEMALE; HEART INFARCTION; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; LEFT ANTERIOR DESCENDING CORONARY ARTERY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RIGHT CORONARY ARTERY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TRANSTHORACIC ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY;

ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; CHRONIC DISEASE; COHORT STUDIES; CORONARY ANGIOGRAPHY; CORONARY OCCLUSION; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY, DOPPLER, COLOR; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PROBABILITY; RISK ASSESSMENT; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX;

EID: 58449121979     PISSN: 15252167     EISSN: 15322114     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/ejechocard/jen159     Document Type: Article

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