The effect of slow coronary flow on right and left ventricular performance

Medical Principles and Practice

Volumn 23, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 34-39

  Altunkas, Fatih ^a   Koc, Fatih ^a   Ceyhan, Koksal ^a   Celik, Atac ^a   Kadi, Hasan ^a   Karayakali, Metin ^a   Ozbek, Kerem ^a   Burucu, Turgay ^a   Ozturk, Ahmet ^a   Onalan, Orhan ^a  

^a GAZIOSMANPASA UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

Coronary artery disease; Left ventricular function; Myocardial performance index; Right ventricular function; Slow coronary flow; Tissue Doppler echocardiography

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANGIOCARDIOGRAPHY; ARTICLE; BLOOD CLOT LYSIS; BLOOD FLOW VELOCITY; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORONARY ARTERY BLOOD FLOW; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HEART INFARCTION; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE PERFORMANCE; HEART PERFORMANCE; HEART RIGHT VENTRICLE PERFORMANCE; HUMAN; MALE; RELAXATION TIME; SLOW CORONARY FLOW; TISSUE DOPPLER IMAGING; CARDIOVASCULAR PARAMETERS; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE CONTRACTION; ISOVOLUMETRIC RELAXATION TIME; MIDDLE AGED; TIME; TRICUSPID VALVE;

ADULT; AGED; BLOOD FLOW VELOCITY; CORONARY ANGIOGRAPHY; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY, DOPPLER; FEMALE; HEMODYNAMICS; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; VASCULAR DISEASES; VENTRICULAR DYSFUNCTION, LEFT; VENTRICULAR DYSFUNCTION, RIGHT; VENTRICULAR FUNCTION, LEFT; VENTRICULAR FUNCTION, RIGHT;

EID: 84891276129     PISSN: 10117571     EISSN: 14230151     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000355471     Document Type: Article

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