Serial transthoracic coronary Doppler shows complete reversibility of microvascular obstruction pattern at one month after reperfused acute myocardial infarction

Medical Ultrasonography

Volumn 19, Issue 1, 2017, Pages 45-50

  Ober, Camelia Diana ^a   Ober, Mihai Claudiu ^b   Iancu, Adrian Corneliu ^a,c  

^a Niculae Stancioiu Heart Institute   (Romania)

^b Cluj County Clinical Emergency Hospital   (Romania)

^c IULIU HATIEGANU UNIVERSITY OF MEDICINE AND PHARMACY   (Romania)

Author keywords

"no reflow" reversibility; Acute myocardial infarction; Coronary Doppler flow; Microvascular obstruction reversibility; Primary angioplasty

Indexed keywords

ACUTE HEART INFARCTION; ADULT; ANGIOPLASTY; ARTICLE; CARDIOVASCULAR PARAMETERS; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORONARY MICROCIRCULATION; CORONARY REPERFUSION; CORONARY STENT; DIASTOLIC DECELERATION TIME; DISEASE COURSE; DOPPLER DEVICE; DOPPLER FLOWMETRY; ECHOCARDIOGRAPH; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; END SYSTOLIC VOLUME; FEMALE; FLOW MEASUREMENT; HEART EJECTION FRACTION; HUMAN; LEFT ANTERIOR DESCENDING CORONARY ARTERY; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; MALE; MICROCIRCULATION; MICROVASCULAR OBSTRUCTION; MICROVASCULAR REPERFUSION; MICROVASCULAR RESISTANCE; OBSERVATIONAL STUDY; PEAK DIASTOLIC VELOCITY; PEAK SYSTOLIC VELOCITY; PERCUTANEOUS CORONARY INTERVENTION; PROGNOSIS; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; SURVIVAL RATE; SYSTOLIC FLOW REVERSAL; TRANSTHORACIC CORONARY DOPPLER; ACUTE DISEASE; BLOOD FLOW VELOCITY; CORONARY ARTERY BLOOD FLOW; CORONARY BLOOD VESSEL; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; DOPPLER ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; FOLLOW UP; MIDDLE AGED; MYOCARDIAL INFARCTION; PHYSIOLOGY; PROCEDURES; STENT;

ACUTE DISEASE; ANGIOPLASTY; BLOOD FLOW VELOCITY; CORONARY CIRCULATION; CORONARY VESSELS; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY, DOPPLER; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; MALE; MICROCIRCULATION; MIDDLE AGED; MYOCARDIAL INFARCTION; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; STENTS;

EID: 85011995494     PISSN: 18444172     EISSN: 20668643     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.11152/mu-941     Document Type: Article

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