Quantitative assessment of coronary microvascular function in patients with and without epicardial atherosclerosis

EuroIntervention

Volumn 5, Issue 8, 2010, Pages 939-945

  Melikian, Narbeh ^a,b   Vercauteren, Stephen ^a   Fearon, William F ^c   Cuisset, Thomas ^a   MacCarthy, Philip A ^d   Davidavicius, Giedrius ^a   Aarnoudse, Wilbert ^e   Bartunek, Jozef ^a   Vanderheyden, Marc ^a   Wyffels, Eric ^a   Wijns, William ^a   Heyndrickx, Guy R ^a   Pijls, Nico H J ^e   De Bruyne, Bernard ^a  

^a OLV HOSPITAL   (Belgium)

^b KING'S COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^c STANFORD UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^d KING S COLLEGE HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^e CATHARINA HOSPITAL   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Atherosclerosis; Coronary microcirculation; Fractional flow reserve (FFR); Index of microvascular resistance (IMR)

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ATHEROMA; ATHEROSCLEROSIS; CARDIOVASCULAR PARAMETERS; CARDIOVASCULAR RISK; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORONARY BLOOD VESSEL; EPICARDIAL ATHEROSCLEROSIS; FEMALE; FRACTIONAL FLOW RESERVE; HEART CATHETERIZATION; HUMAN; INDEX OF MYOCARDIAL RESISTANCE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; AGED; ANGIOCARDIOGRAPHY; CASE CONTROL STUDY; CHI SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; CORONARY ARTERY BLOOD FLOW; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; HYPEREMIA; MICROCIRCULATION; MIDDLE AGED; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PERICARDIUM; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTOR; VASCULAR RESISTANCE;

DIAGNOSTIC AGENT; VASODILATOR AGENT;

ADULT; AGED; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; CHI-SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; CORONARY ANGIOGRAPHY; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; CORONARY CIRCULATION; CORONARY VESSELS; FEMALE; FRACTIONAL FLOW RESERVE, MYOCARDIAL; HEART CATHETERIZATION; HUMANS; HYPEREMIA; MALE; MICROCIRCULATION; MIDDLE AGED; PERICARDIUM; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTORS; VASCULAR RESISTANCE; VASODILATOR AGENTS;

EID: 77957057458     PISSN: 1774024X     EISSN: 19696213     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4244/EIJV5I8A158     Document Type: Article

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