Fast in the aorta, slow in the coronaries

Cardiology

Volumn 116, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 257-260

  Vlachopoulos, Charalambos ^a,b   Alexopoulos, Nikolaos ^a   Stefanadis, Christodoulos ^a  

^a HIPPOKRATION HOSPITAL   (Greece)

^b NONE   (Greece)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTERIAL STIFFNESS; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID; CLINICAL FEATURE; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; CORONARY SLOW FLOW; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE FUNCTION; HUMAN; MEAN ARTERIAL PRESSURE; MICROVASCULATURE; NOTE; OXYGEN SUPPLY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEX DIFFERENCE; SMOKING; THORAX PAIN;

AORTA, THORACIC; BLOOD FLOW VELOCITY; BLOOD PRESSURE DETERMINATION; CHEST PAIN; CORONARY CIRCULATION; ELASTICITY; HUMANS; NO-REFLOW PHENOMENON; VENTRICULAR DYSFUNCTION, LEFT;

EID: 77956093320     PISSN: 00086312     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000319599     Document Type: Note

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