Is increased epicardial fat thickness a marker of the presence of severe coronary artery disease?;Epikardiyal yaǧ kalınlıǧının artışı şiddetli koroner arter hastalıǧı varlıǧının bir belirteci midir?

Anadolu Kardiyoloji Dergisi

Volumn 12, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 206-207

  Duman, Dursun ^a  

^a ISTANBUL MEDIPOL UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ANGIOCARDIOGRAPHY; CALIFF SCORING; CARDIOVASCULAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE; CARDIOVASCULAR PARAMETERS; CARDIOVASCULAR RISK; CORONARY ARTERY ATHEROSCLEROSIS; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DISEASE SEVERITY; EPICARDIAL FAT THICKNESS; HEART MUSCLE; HEART MUSCLE INJURY; HEART MUSCLE ISCHEMIA; HUMAN; INVASIVE PROCEDURE; ISCHEMIC HEART DISEASE; LETTER; LIPID STORAGE; MULTIDETECTOR COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; SCORING SYSTEM; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; TRANSTHORACIC ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY;

EID: 84859978763     PISSN: 13028723     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5152/akd.2012.062     Document Type: Letter

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