Significance and assessment of coronary microvascular dysfunction

Heart

Volumn 97, Issue 7, 2011, Pages 587-595

  Leung, Dominic Y ^a   Leung, Melissa ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARDIOVASCULAR AGENT;

ACUTE CORONARY SYNDROME; ACUTE HEART INFARCTION; ARTICLE; CARDIOMYOPATHY; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTRAST ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; CORONARY ARTERY ATHEROSCLEROSIS; CORONARY ARTERY BLOOD FLOW; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; DISEASE CLASSIFICATION; DISEASE CONTROL; DISEASE COURSE; DOPPLER ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; ENDOTHELIAL DYSFUNCTION; FUNCTIONAL ASSESSMENT; HEART MUSCLE ISCHEMIA; HUMAN; LIFESTYLE MODIFICATION; MICROANGIOPATHY; MICROCIRCULATION; NONHUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PERCUTANEOUS CORONARY INTERVENTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTER TOMOGRAPHY; TRANSESOPHAGEAL ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; TRANSLUMINAL CORONARY ANGIOPLASTY; VASCULAR ENDOTHELIUM; VASCULAR RESISTANCE; METHODOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; REVIEW;

CORONARY CIRCULATION; CORONARY DISEASE; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY, DOPPLER; ENDOTHELIUM, VASCULAR; HUMANS; MICROCIRCULATION; POSITRON-EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; VASCULAR RESISTANCE;

EID: 79952525005     PISSN: 13556037     EISSN: 1468201X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/hrt.2009.183327     Document Type: Article

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