Transthoracic Doppler echocardiography to noninvasively assess coronary vasoconstrictor and dilator responses in humans

American Journal of Physiology - Heart and Circulatory Physiology

Volumn 298, Issue 2, 2010, Pages

  Momen, Afsana ^a   Kozak, Mark ^a   Leuenberger, Urs A ^a   Ettinger, Steven ^a   Blaha, Cheryl ^a   Mascarenhas, Vernon ^a   Lendel, Vasili ^a   Herr, Michael D ^a   Sinoway, Lawrence I ^a  

^a PENN STATE COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Coronary flow velocity; Duplex ultrasound; Handgrip

Indexed keywords

ADENOSINE;

ADULT; AGED; ARTERY CONSTRICTION; ARTICLE; BLOOD VESSEL REACTIVITY; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CORONARY ARTERY BLOOD FLOW; CORONARY VASCULAR RESISTANCE; DIASTOLIC BLOOD PRESSURE; DOPPLER ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HAND GRIP; HEART CATHETERIZATION; HUMAN; INTERNAL MAMMARY ARTERY; LEFT ANTERIOR DESCENDING CORONARY ARTERY; MALE; NON INVASIVE PROCEDURE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RELIABILITY; STIMULUS RESPONSE; TRANSTHORACIC ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY;

ADENOSINE; AGED; BLOOD FLOW VELOCITY; BLOOD PRESSURE; CORONARY ARTERY BYPASS; CORONARY VESSELS; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HAND STRENGTH; HEART CATHETERIZATION; HEART RATE; HUMANS; MALE; MAMMARY ARTERIES; MIDDLE AGED; REGIONAL BLOOD FLOW; VASCULAR RESISTANCE; VASOCONSTRICTION; VASODILATION; VASODILATOR AGENTS;

EID: 74949106086     PISSN: 03636135     EISSN: 15221539     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1152/ajpheart.00486.2009     Document Type: Article

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