Assessment of coronary flow parameters by transesophageal echocardiography in patients with isolated coronary artery ectasia: Effect of intravenous nitroglycerin

Echocardiography

Volumn 27, Issue 8, 2010, Pages 1004-1010

  Abdeldayem, Tarek M K ^a   El Mawardy, Ramzy ^a   Abdel Dayem, M Khairy ^a   Rayan, Mona ^a   El Mahmoudy, Ahmed ^a   Shawky, Gamal ^b   Nammas, Wail ^a  

^a AIN SHAMS UNIVERSITY   (Egypt)

^b Medical Insurance Hospital   (Egypt)

Author keywords

coronary artery ectasia; coronary circulation; transesophageal echocardiography (TEE); vascular resistance

Indexed keywords

GLYCERYL TRINITRATE;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BLOOD FLOW VELOCITY; CARDIOVASCULAR PARAMETERS; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL ASSESSMENT; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORONARY ARTERY BLOOD FLOW; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; CORONARY ARTERY ECTASIA; DIASTOLIC BLOOD PRESSURE; DRUG EFFECT; FEMALE; HUMAN; LEFT ANTERIOR DESCENDING CORONARY ARTERY; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; SYSTOLIC BLOOD PRESSURE; TRANSESOPHAGEAL ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY;

CORONARY CIRCULATION; CORONARY STENOSIS; DILATATION, PATHOLOGIC; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY, TRANSESOPHAGEAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; INJECTIONS, INTRAVENOUS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NITROGLYCERIN; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; VASODILATOR AGENTS;

EID: 77956937250     PISSN: 07422822     EISSN: 15408175     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1540-8175.2010.01164.x     Document Type: Article

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