Staccato reperfusion improves myocardial microcirculatory function and long-term left ventricular remodelling: A randomised contrast echocardiography study

Heart

Volumn 96, Issue 23, 2010, Pages 1898-1903

  Ikonomidis, Ignatios ^a   Iliodromitis, Efstathios K ^a   Tzortzis, Stavros ^a   Antoniadis, Aias ^a   Paraskevaidis, Ioannis ^a   Andreadou, Ioanna ^b   Fountoulaki, Katerina ^a   Farmakis, Dimitrios ^a   Kremastinos, Dimitrios T ^a   Anastasiou Nana, Maria ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Greece)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS   (Greece)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ACETYLSALICYLIC ACID; BETA ADRENERGIC RECEPTOR BLOCKING AGENT; CLOPIDOGREL; ENOXAPARIN; FIBRINOGEN RECEPTOR ANTAGONIST; FONDAPARINUX; HEPARIN; HYDROXYMETHYLGLUTARYL COENZYME A REDUCTASE INHIBITOR; MALONALDEHYDE; NITRATE; SONOVUE;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BLOOD FLOW VELOCITY; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTINUOUS INFUSION; CONTRAST ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE ENDDIASTOLIC VOLUME; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE ENDSYSTOLIC VOLUME; HEART MUSCLE BLOOD FLOW; HEART VENTRICLE REMODELING; HUMAN; MALE; MICROCIRCULATION; NON ST SEGMENT ELEVATION MYOCARDIAL INFARCTION; OXIDATIVE STRESS; PERCUTANEOUS CORONARY INTERVENTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; REPERFUSION; SINGLE BLIND PROCEDURE; ST SEGMENT ELEVATION MYOCARDIAL INFARCTION; STACCATO REPERFUSION; UNSTABLE ANGINA PECTORIS;

ACUTE CORONARY SYNDROME; ANTICOAGULANTS; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MICROCIRCULATION; MIDDLE AGED; MYOCARDIAL INFARCTION; MYOCARDIAL REPERFUSION; MYOCARDIAL REPERFUSION INJURY; VENTRICULAR DYSFUNCTION, LEFT; VENTRICULAR REMODELING;

EID: 78649942810     PISSN: 13556037     EISSN: 1468201X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/hrt.2010.201681     Document Type: Article

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