Assessment of microcirculatory remodeling with intracoronary flow velocity and pressure measurements: Validation with endomyocardial sampling in cardiac allografts

Circulation

Volumn 120, Issue 16, 2009, Pages 1561-1568

  Escaned, Javier ^a   Flores, Alex ^a   García Pavía, Pablo ^a   Segovia, Javier ^a   Jimenez, Jesús ^a   Aragoncillo, Paloma ^b   Salas, Clara ^a   Alfonso, Fernando ^a   Hernández, Rosana ^a   Angiolillo, Dominick J ^a   Jiménez Quevedo, Pilar ^a   Bañuelos, Camino ^a   Alonso Pulpón, Luis ^a   MacAya, Carlos ^a  

^a HOSPITAL UNIVERSITARIO PUERTA DE HIERRO   (Spain)

^b HOSPITAL CLÍNICO SAN CARLOS   (Spain)

Author keywords

Blood flow; Capillaries; Microcirculation; Physiology; Transplantation

Indexed keywords

ANTILIPEMIC AGENT; ANTITHROMBOCYTIC AGENT; DIPEPTIDYL CARBOXYPEPTIDASE INHIBITOR;

ADULT; AORTA PRESSURE; ARTICLE; CAPILLARY DENSITY; CARDIAC ALLOGRAFT VASCULOPATHY; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONGESTIVE CARDIOMYOPATHY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORONARY ARTERY BLOOD FLOW; CORONARY ARTERY OBSTRUCTION; CORONARY ARTERY PRESSURE; CORONARY FLOW RESERVE; CORONARY HEMODYNAMICS; CORONARY VASCULAR RESISTANCE; DIASTOLIC BLOOD PRESSURE; DOPPLER FLOWMETRY; ELECTROCARDIOGRAM; FEMALE; HEART MUSCLE BIOPSY; HEART TRANSPLANTATION; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; ISCHEMIC HEART DISEASE; MALE; MICROCIRCULATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESTRICTIVE CARDIOMYOPATHY;

ADULT; ARTERIOLES; BLOOD FLOW VELOCITY; BLOOD PRESSURE; CAPILLARIES; CORONARY CIRCULATION; DIASTOLE; ENDOCARDIUM; FEMALE; HEART TRANSPLANTATION; HUMANS; HYPEREMIA; MALE; MICROVESSELS; MIDDLE AGED; MYOCARDIUM; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; TRANSPLANTATION, HOMOLOGOUS; VASCULAR RESISTANCE; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 70350243211     PISSN: 00097322     EISSN: 15244539     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1161/CIRCULATIONAHA.108.834739     Document Type: Article

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