Looks can be deceiving: Dissociation between angiographic severity and hemodynamic significance of a lesion. The importance of microvascular resistance

Cardiovascular Revascularization Medicine

Volumn 12, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 258-261

  Layland, Jamie ^a,b   Burns, Andrew T ^a,b   Somaratne, Jithendra ^a   Whitbourn, Robert J ^a,b  

^a ST VINCENT S HOSPITAL   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

Author keywords

FFR; Microcirculation; Resistance

Indexed keywords

AGED; ANGIOCARDIOGRAPHY; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; CORONARY ARTERY OBSTRUCTION; CORONARY HEMODYNAMICS; CORONARY VASCULAR RESISTANCE; DISEASE SEVERITY; FRACTIONAL FLOW RESERVE; HEART MUSCLE ISCHEMIA; HEART MUSCLE PERFUSION; HUMAN; HYPEREMIA; MALE; MICROVASCULARIZATION; MYOCARDIAL PERFUSION IMAGING; PERCUTANEOUS CORONARY INTERVENTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RIGHT CORONARY ARTERY;

AGED; BLOOD FLOW VELOCITY; CORONARY ANGIOGRAPHY; CORONARY CIRCULATION; CORONARY STENOSIS; FRACTIONAL FLOW RESERVE, MYOCARDIAL; HEMODYNAMICS; HUMANS; MALE; MICROCIRCULATION; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VASCULAR RESISTANCE;

EID: 79960712672     PISSN: 15538389     EISSN: 18780938     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.carrev.2010.11.003     Document Type: Article

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