Prevalence and predictors of slow flow in angiographically normal coronary arteries

Clinical Hemorheology and Microcirculation

Volumn 52, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 5-14

  Arbel, Yaron ^a   Rind, Efrat ^a   Banai, Shmuel ^a   Halkin, Amir ^a   Berliner, Shlomo ^a   Herz, Itzhak ^a   Mashav, Noa ^a   Thurm, Tamar ^a   Keren, Gad ^a   Finkelstein, Ariel ^a  

^a TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

Author keywords

coronary microcirculation; Slow flow; smoking; TIMI frame count

Indexed keywords

ALBUMIN; C REACTIVE PROTEIN; CHOLESTEROL; FIBRINOGEN; GLUCOSE; HEMOGLOBIN A1C; HIGH DENSITY LIPOPROTEIN; LOW DENSITY LIPOPROTEIN; TRIACYLGLYCEROL; TROPONIN;

ADULT; AGED; ALBUMIN BLOOD LEVEL; ANGIOCARDIOGRAPHY; ARTICLE; CEREBROVASCULAR ACCIDENT; CLINICAL FEATURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORONARY ARTERY; CORONARY ARTERY BLOOD FLOW; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; CORONARY RISK; DIABETES MELLITUS; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DYSLIPIDEMIA; FEMALE; FIBRINOGEN BLOOD LEVEL; GLUCOSE BLOOD LEVEL; HEMATOCRIT; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; INFLAMMATION; LEUKOCYTE COUNT; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; METABOLIC DISORDER; MICROCIRCULATION; PERIPHERAL VASCULAR DISEASE; PREDICTOR VARIABLE; PREVALENCE; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; PROTEIN BLOOD LEVEL; RISK ASSESSMENT; SLOW CORONARY BLOOD FLOW; SMOKING; TRIACYLGLYCEROL BLOOD LEVEL;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BLOOD FLOW VELOCITY; CORONARY ANGIOGRAPHY; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; CORONARY CIRCULATION; CORONARY VESSELS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PREVALENCE; SMOKING;

EID: 84866848828     PISSN: 13860291     EISSN: 18758622     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3233/CH-2012-1538     Document Type: Article

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