Inverse correlation between coronary and retinal blood flows in patients with normal coronary arteries and slow coronary blood flow

Atherosclerosis

Volumn 232, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 149-154

  Arbel, Yaron ^a   Sternfeld, Amir ^a   Barak, Adiel ^a   Burgansky Eliash, Zvia ^a   Halkin, Amir ^a   Berliner, Shlomo ^a   Herz, Itzhak ^a   Keren, Gad ^a   Rubinstein, Ardon ^a   Banai, Shmuel ^a   Finkelstein, Ariel ^a  

^a TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

Author keywords

Coronary flow; Normal coronary arteries; Retinal blood flow; Slow coronary flow; TIMI frame count

Indexed keywords

GLUCOSE; HYDROXYMETHYLGLUTARYL COENZYME A REDUCTASE INHIBITOR; LOW DENSITY LIPOPROTEIN CHOLESTEROL;

ADULT; AGED; ARTERIOLE; ARTICLE; BLOOD FLOW VELOCITY; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL EFFECTIVENESS; CORONARY ARTERY; CORONARY ARTERY BLOOD FLOW; DEVICES; DRUG USE; FEMALE; FUNDUS CAMERA; HUMAN; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NON INVASIVE PROCEDURE; OPHTHALMOLOGICAL DIAGNOSTIC DEVICE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECEIVER OPERATING CHARACTERISTIC; RETINA BLOOD FLOW; RETINAL FUNCTIONAL IMAGER DEVICE; SLOW CORONARY BLOOD FLOW; VELOCITY;

CORONARY FLOW; NORMAL CORONARY ARTERIES; RETINAL BLOOD FLOW; SLOW CORONARY FLOW; TIMI FRAME COUNT;

ADULT; AGED; ARTERIOLES; BLOOD FLOW VELOCITY; CHEST PAIN; CORONARY CIRCULATION; CORONARY VESSELS; FEMALE; FUNDUS OCULI; HUMANS; MALE; MICROCIRCULATION; MIDDLE AGED; NO-REFLOW PHENOMENON; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RETINA; RETINAL VESSELS; RISK FACTORS; ROC CURVE;

EID: 84891618972     PISSN: 00219150     EISSN: 18791484     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.atherosclerosis.2013.10.033     Document Type: Article

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