Clinical assessment of endothelial function ready for prime time?

Circulation: Cardiovascular Imaging

Volumn 4, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 348-350

  Gokce, Noyan ^a  

^a BOSTON MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Editorials; Endothelium; Vascular function; Vascular imaging; Vasodilation

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL MARKER;

ARTERY DIAMETER; ARTERY DILATATION; BLOOD VESSEL REACTIVITY; BRACHIAL ARTERY; CARDIOVASCULAR RISK; CLINICAL ASSESSMENT; COMPUTER PROGRAM; DIGITAL PULSE AMPLITUDE TONOMETRY; FLOW MEDIATED DILATATION; FOREARM; HUMAN; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHOTOELECTRIC PLETHYSMOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; REVIEW; SHEAR STRESS; SPHYGMOMANOMETER; TONOMETRY; ULTRASOUND; VASCULAR ENDOTHELIUM; BLOOD FLOW; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE; HYPEREMIA; LESIONS AND DEFECTS; MASS SCREENING; METABOLISM; METHODOLOGY; NOTE; PHYSIOLOGY; PLETHYSMOGRAPHY; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTOR; VASCULAR RESISTANCE;

BRACHIAL ARTERY; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASES; DILATATION, PATHOLOGIC; ENDOTHELIUM, VASCULAR; HUMANS; HYPEREMIA; MASS SCREENING; PLETHYSMOGRAPHY; REGIONAL BLOOD FLOW; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTORS; VASCULAR RESISTANCE;

EID: 80053309843     PISSN: 19419651     EISSN: 19420080     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1161/CIRCIMAGING.111.966218     Document Type: Review

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