The comparison of contrast echocardiography and tissue Doppler imaging for evaluation of reperfused myocardium in patients with acute anterior myocardial infarction

Cardiology Journal

Volumn 15, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 548-554

  Streb, Witold ^a   Duszańska, Agata ^a   Stabryła Deska, Joanna ^a   Pluta, Sławomir ^a   Świerad, Marcin ^a   Was, Tomasz ^a   Kalarus, Zbigniew ^a   Kukulski, Tomasz ^a  

^a MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF SILESIA   (Poland)

Author keywords

Echocardiography; Myocardial blush grade; Myocardial perfusion

Indexed keywords

ECHO CONTRAST MEDIUM; SONOVIEW; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ACUTE HEART INFARCTION; ADULT; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL ASSESSMENT TOOL; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTRAST ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOPPLER ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HEART MUSCLE CONTRACTILITY; HEART MUSCLE PERFUSION; HEART MUSCLE REPERFUSION; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; LEFT ANTERIOR DESCENDING CORONARY ARTERY; MALE; MICROCIRCULATION; MYOCARDIAL BLUSH GRADE; PERCUTANEOUS CORONARY INTERVENTION; ST SEGMENT ELEVATION; THORAX PAIN; TRANSLUMINAL CORONARY ANGIOPLASTY;

CORONARY CIRCULATION; DISEASE PROGRESSION; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY, DOPPLER; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; INJECTIONS, INTRAVENOUS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MYOCARDIAL CONTRACTION; MYOCARDIAL INFARCTION; PHOSPHOLIPIDS; RECOVERY OF FUNCTION; REGIONAL BLOOD FLOW; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SULFUR HEXAFLUORIDE;

EID: 59849083902     PISSN: 18975593     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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