Non-invasive evaluation of coronary flow reserve with transthoracic Doppler echocardiography predicts the presence of significant stenosis in coronary arteries

International Journal of Cardiology

Volumn 176, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 294-297

  Haraldsson, Inger ^a,b   Gan, Li Ming ^a,b   Svedlund, Sara ^a,b   Wittfeldt, Ann ^a,b   Råmunddal, Truls ^a,b   Angerås, Oskar ^a,b   Albertsson, Per ^a,b   Matejka, Göran ^a,b   Omerovic, Elmir ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GOTHENBURG   (Sweden)

^b SAHLGRENSKA UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Coronary artery disease; Coronary flow reserve; Transthoracic Doppler echocardiography

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ANGIOCARDIOGRAPHY; BLOOD FLOW VELOCITY; CORONARY ARTERY CIRCUMFLEX BRANCH; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; CORONARY ARTERY OBSTRUCTION; CORONARY FLOW RESERVE; DISEASE SEVERITY; DOPPLER ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMAN; LEFT ANTERIOR DESCENDING CORONARY ARTERY; LETTER; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RIGHT CORONARY ARTERY; SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTER TOMOGRAPHY; THORAX PAIN; TRANSTHORACIC DOPPLER ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; TRANSTHORACIC ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; VERY ELDERLY; CORONARY BLOOD VESSEL; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; ECHOGRAPHY; FRACTIONAL FLOW RESERVE; MIDDLE AGED; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PREDICTIVE VALUE; PROCEDURES;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CORONARY STENOSIS; CORONARY VESSELS; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY, DOPPLER; FEMALE; FRACTIONAL FLOW RESERVE, MYOCARDIAL; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS;

EID: 84906316364     PISSN: 01675273     EISSN: 18741754     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ijcard.2014.06.076     Document Type: Article

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