Noninvasive evaluation of coronary flow velocity reserve in homozygous familial hypercholesterolemia by transthoracic doppler echocardiography

Echocardiography

Volumn 27, Issue 8, 2010, Pages 985-989

  Zhang, Xiaoshan ^a   Yang, Ya ^a   Li, Zhi'An ^a   Ren, Hongyan ^a   Lin, Jie ^b   Wang, Lvya ^b  

^a CAPITAL MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b BEIJING INSTITUTE OF HEART   (China)

Author keywords

coronary blood flow velocity reserve; homozygous familial hypercholesterolemia; transthoracic Doppler echocardiography

Indexed keywords

ADENOSINE; CHOLESTEROL; LOW DENSITY LIPOPROTEIN CHOLESTEROL; PROBUCOL; SIMVASTATIN; TRIACYLGLYCEROL;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AORTA SUPRAVALVULAR STENOSIS; ARTICLE; CHOLESTEROL BLOOD LEVEL; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORONARY FLOW RESERVE; FAMILIAL HYPERCHOLESTEROLEMIA; FEMALE; HOMOZYGOUS FAMILIAL HYPERCHOLESTEROLEMIA; HUMAN; HYPEREMIA; LEFT ANTERIOR DESCENDING CORONARY ARTERY; LIPOPROTEIN BLOOD LEVEL; MALE; NON INVASIVE PROCEDURE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; TRANSTHORACIC ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; TRIACYLGLYCEROL BLOOD LEVEL;

ADOLESCENT; BLOOD FLOW VELOCITY; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; CORONARY CIRCULATION; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY, DOPPLER, COLOR; FEMALE; FRACTIONAL FLOW RESERVE, MYOCARDIAL; HOMOZYGOTE; HUMANS; HYPERLIPOPROTEINEMIA TYPE II; MALE; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

EID: 77956898314     PISSN: 07422822     EISSN: 15408175     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1540-8175.2010.01169.x     Document Type: Article

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