Implication of the Continuous Prognostic Spectrum of Doppler Echocardiographic Derived Coronary Flow Reserve on Left Anterior Descending Artery

American Journal of Cardiology

Volumn 105, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 158-162

  Cortigiani, Lauro ^a   Rigo, Fausto ^b   Gherardi, Sonia ^c   Bovenzi, Francesco ^a   Picano, Eugenio ^d   Sicari, Rosa ^d  

^a CAMPO DI MARTE HOSPITAL   (Italy)

^b Ospedale Umberto I   (Italy)

^c AUSL Cesena   (Italy)

^d INSTITUTE OF CLINICAL PHYSIOLOGY   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DIPYRIDAMOLE;

ADULT; AGED; ANGIOCARDIOGRAPHY; ARTICLE; CARDIAC PATIENT; CARDIOVASCULAR RISK; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; CORONARY ARTERY OBSTRUCTION; CORONARY FLOW RESERVE; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; DOPPLER ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; DRUG MEGADOSE; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HEART DEATH; HEART INFARCTION; HEART MUSCLE ISCHEMIA; HEART MUSCLE REVASCULARIZATION; HIGH RISK PATIENT; HUMAN; LEFT ANTERIOR DESCENDING CORONARY ARTERY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PHARMACOLOGIC STRESS TESTING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; ST SEGMENT ELEVATION; STRESS ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; TRANSTHORACIC ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY;

AGED; CARDIAC VOLUME; COHORT STUDIES; CORONARY ANGIOGRAPHY; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; CORONARY VESSELS; DIPYRIDAMOLE; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY, DOPPLER; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY, STRESS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; PROGNOSIS; REGIONAL BLOOD FLOW;

EID: 73249135436     PISSN: 00029149     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.amjcard.2009.08.669     Document Type: Article

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