Non-invasive evaluation of myocardial reperfusion by transthoracic Doppler echocardiography and single-photon emission computed tomography in patients with anterior acute myocardial infarction

Cardiovascular Ultrasound

Volumn 9, Issue 1, 2011, Pages

  Sadauskiene, Egle ^a   Zakarkaite, Diana ^a   Ryliskyte, Ligita ^a   Celutkiene, Jelena ^a   Rudys, Alfredas ^a   Aidietiene, Sigita ^a   Laucevicius, Aleksandras ^a  

^a VILNIUS UNIVERSITY   (Lithuania)

Author keywords

contractile function; coronary flow reserve; Myocardial infarction; reperfusion

Indexed keywords

ACETYLSALICYLIC ACID; BETA ADRENERGIC RECEPTOR BLOCKING AGENT; CREATINE KINASE MB; DIPEPTIDYL CARBOXYPEPTIDASE INHIBITOR; DIURETIC AGENT; DOBUTAMINE; NITRATE; TROPONIN I;

ACCURACY; ACUTE HEART INFARCTION; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CORONARY FLOW RESERVE; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DOPPLER ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HEART EJECTION FRACTION; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE FUNCTION; HEART MUSCLE CONTRACTILITY; HEART MUSCLE REPERFUSION; HUMAN; LINEAR REGRESSION ANALYSIS; LOW DRUG DOSE; MALE; NON INVASIVE PROCEDURE; PARAMETER; PERCUTANEOUS CORONARY INTERVENTION; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTER TOMOGRAPHY; STRESS ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; TRANSTHORACIC ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; ANTERIOR MYOCARDIAL INFARCTION; COHORT ANALYSIS; CORONARY ARTERY BLOOD FLOW; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; EVALUATION; HEART VENTRICLE REMODELING; HOSPITALIZATION; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; MONITORING; PHYSIOLOGY; POSTOPERATIVE CARE; RECEIVER OPERATING CHARACTERISTIC; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; RISK ASSESSMENT; THREE DIMENSIONAL ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; TIME; TRANSLUMINAL CORONARY ANGIOPLASTY; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ADULT; AGED; ANGIOPLASTY, BALLOON, CORONARY; ANTERIOR WALL MYOCARDIAL INFARCTION; COHORT STUDIES; CORONARY CIRCULATION; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY, DOPPLER; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY, STRESS; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MONITORING, PHYSIOLOGIC; POSTOPERATIVE CARE; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK ASSESSMENT; ROC CURVE; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; TIME FACTORS; TOMOGRAPHY, EMISSION-COMPUTED, SINGLE-PHOTON; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VENTRICULAR REMODELING;

EID: 79957451613     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14767120     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1476-7120-9-16     Document Type: Article

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