Aortic pressures, stiffness and left ventricular function in coronary slow flow phenomenon

Cardiology

Volumn 116, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 261-267

  Tanriverdi, Halil ^a,d   Evrengul, Harun ^b   Kilic, I Dogu ^a   Taskoylu, Ozgur ^a   Dogan, Güllü ^a   Alpsoy, Seref ^c  

^a PAMUKKALE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Turkey)

^b Izmir Sifa Hastanesi   (Turkey)

^c NAMIK KEMAL UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

^d PAMUKKALE UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

Aortic stiffness; Coronary slow flow; Diastolic dysfunction; Pulse pressure

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ANGIOCARDIOGRAPHY; AORTA PRESSURE; ARTERIAL STIFFNESS; ARTICLE; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; CORONARY SLOW FLOW; ELASTICITY; FEMALE; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE FUNCTION; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

AORTA, THORACIC; BLOOD PRESSURE DETERMINATION; CHI-SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; CORONARY ANGIOGRAPHY; CORONARY CIRCULATION; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; ELASTICITY; FEMALE; HEMODYNAMICS; HUMANS; LINEAR MODELS; LIPIDS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NO-REFLOW PHENOMENON; VENTRICULAR DYSFUNCTION, LEFT;

EID: 77956072659     PISSN: 00086312     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000316652     Document Type: Article

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