The relation between the color M-mode propagation velocity of the descending aorta and coronary and carotid atherosclerosis and flow-mediated dilatation

Echocardiography

Volumn 27, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 300-305

  Gunes, Yilmaz ^a   Tuncer, Mustafa ^a   Guntekin, Unal ^a   Ceylan, Yemlihan ^a   Simsek, Hakki ^a   Sahin, Musa ^a   Yildirim, Mustafa ^b  

^a YUZUNCU YIL UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

^b Military Hospital   (Turkey)

Author keywords

Atherosclerosis; Color M mode; Flow mediated dilatation; Intima media thickness; Propagation velocity

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANGIOCARDIOGRAPHY; ARTERIAL WALL THICKNESS; ARTERY BLOOD FLOW; ARTERY DILATATION; ARTICLE; ATHEROSCLEROSIS; BLOOD FLOW VELOCITY; BRACHIAL ARTERY; CARDIAC PATIENT; CAROTID ARTERY DISEASE; CAROTID ATHEROSCLEROSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORONARY ARTERY ATHEROSCLEROSIS; DESCENDING AORTA; FEMALE; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; M MODE ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TRANSTHORACIC ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; ECHOGRAPHY; MIDDLE AGED; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; STENOSIS, OCCLUSION AND OBSTRUCTION; THORACIC AORTA; TUNICA MEDIA;

AORTA, THORACIC; CAROTID ARTERY DISEASES; CONSTRICTION, PATHOLOGIC; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; TUNICA MEDIA;

EID: 77949735746     PISSN: 07422822     EISSN: 15408175     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1540-8175.2009.01019.x     Document Type: Article

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