Rebuttal: Timi myocardial perfusion frame count: An angiographic method to assess flow in the myocardium but not in the epicardial artery

Catheterization and Cardiovascular Interventions

Volumn 76, Issue 7, 2010, Pages 1073-1075

  Pu, Jun ^a   Ding, Song ^a   He, Ben ^a  

^a SHANGHAI JIAO TONG UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (China)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ANALYTIC METHOD; ANGIOGRAPHY; BLOOD FLOW VELOCITY; CORONARY ARTERY BLOOD FLOW; EPICARDIUM; HEART MUSCLE PERFUSION; HUMAN; LETTER; PERCUTANEOUS CORONARY INTERVENTION; PROGNOSIS; ST SEGMENT ELEVATION MYOCARDIAL INFARCTION; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ANGIOPLASTY, BALLOON, CORONARY; CORONARY ANGIOGRAPHY; CORONARY CIRCULATION; CORONARY VESSELS; HUMANS; MYOCARDIAL INFARCTION; MYOCARDIAL PERFUSION IMAGING; PERICARDIUM; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; RADIOGRAPHIC IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; TIME FACTORS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 78649640117     PISSN: 15221946     EISSN: 1522726X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/ccd.22655     Document Type: Letter

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