Evaluation of Coronary Flow Velocity Reserve in Homozygous Familial Hypercholesterolemia by Transthoracic Doppler Echocardiography and Dual-Source Computed Tomography

Ultrasound in Medicine and Biology

Volumn 36, Issue 10, 2010, Pages 1756-1761

  Yang, Ya ^a   Zhang, Xiaoshan ^a   Li, Rongjuan ^a   Ren, Hongyan ^a   Wang, Zheng ^a   Li, Zhian ^a   Lin, Jie ^b   Wang, Luya ^b   Yu, Wei ^a   Zhang, Zhaoqi ^a  

^a CAPITAL MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b BEIJING INSTITUTE OF HEART   (China)

Author keywords

Coronary blood flow velocity reserve; Dual source computed tomography; Homozygous familial hypercholesterolemia; Transthoracic Doppler echocardiography

Indexed keywords

COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; CORONARY ARTERIES; CORONARY BLOOD FLOWS; CORONARY FLOW; CORONARY FLOW VELOCITY RESERVES; DUAL SOURCE; DYNAMIC CHANGES; HYPERCHOLESTEROLEMIA; LDL CHOLESTEROL; LOW DENSITY LIPOPROTEINS; MEAN AGES; NONINVASIVE METHODS; NORMAL CONTROLS; TRANSTHORACIC DOPPLER ECHOCARDIOGRAPHIES;

BLOOD; BLOOD VESSELS; CHOLESTEROL; COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY; DISEASES; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; FLOW VELOCITY; HEMODYNAMICS; VELOCITY;

HEART;

LOW DENSITY LIPOPROTEIN CHOLESTEROL;

ADOLESCENT; AORTA ATHEROSCLEROSIS; ARTICLE; ATHEROSCLEROTIC PLAQUE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY SCANNER; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORONARY ARTERY ATHEROSCLEROSIS; CORONARY FLOW RESERVE; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; DOPPLER ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; EXERCISE TEST; FAMILIAL HYPERCHOLESTEROLEMIA; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; NON INVASIVE MEASUREMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TRANSTHORACIC ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; ULTRASOUND SCANNER;

ADOLESCENT; BLOOD FLOW VELOCITY; CHOLESTEROL, LDL; CONTRAST MEDIA; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; CORONARY CIRCULATION; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY, DOPPLER; FEMALE; HUMANS; HYPERLIPOPROTEINEMIA TYPE II; IOHEXOL; MALE; OBSERVER VARIATION; RADIOGRAPHIC IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 77956648754     PISSN: 03015629     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ultrasmedbio.2010.05.013     Document Type: Article

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