Invasive Assessment of the Coronary Microcirculation in Reperfused ST-Segment-Elevation Myocardial Infarction Patients: Where Do We Stand?

Circulation: Cardiovascular Interventions

Volumn 10, Issue 3, 2017, Pages

  Bulluck, Heerajnarain ^a,b,c,d   Foin, Nicolas ^c,d   Tan, Jack W ^d   Low, Adrian F ^e   Sezer, Murat ^f   Hausenloy, Derek J ^a,b,c,d,g,h  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON HOSPITALS   (United Kingdom)

^c DUKE NUS MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Singapore)

^d DEPARTMENT OF CARDIOLOGY   (Singapore)

^e NATIONAL UNIVERSITY HEALTH SYSTEM   (Singapore)

^f ISTANBUL UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

^g ST BARTHOLOMEW S HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^h NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

Author keywords

adenosine; endothelial cells; microcirculation; myocardial infarction; no reflow phenomenon; percutaneous coronary intervention

Indexed keywords

CORONARY ARTERY BLOOD FLOW; CORONARY FLOW RESERVE; CORONARY VASCULAR RESISTANCE; DECELERATION; FLOW RATE; HUMAN; INVASIVE PROCEDURE; MICROCIRCULATION; NON INVASIVE PROCEDURE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; ST SEGMENT ELEVATION MYOCARDIAL INFARCTION; BLOOD FLOW VELOCITY; CORONARY ANGIOGRAPHY; HEART CATHETERIZATION; HEMODYNAMICS; HYPEREMIA; NO-REFLOW PHENOMENON; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PERCUTANEOUS CORONARY INTERVENTION; PREDICTIVE VALUE; RISK FACTOR; ST ELEVATION MYOCARDIAL INFARCTION; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VASCULAR RESISTANCE;

BLOOD FLOW VELOCITY; CARDIAC CATHETERIZATION; CORONARY ANGIOGRAPHY; CORONARY CIRCULATION; HEMODYNAMICS; HUMANS; HYPEREMIA; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MICROCIRCULATION; NO-REFLOW PHENOMENON; PERCUTANEOUS CORONARY INTERVENTION; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; RISK FACTORS; ST ELEVATION MYOCARDIAL INFARCTION; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VASCULAR RESISTANCE;

EID: 85016022138     PISSN: 19417640     EISSN: 19417632     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1161/CIRCINTERVENTIONS.116.004373     Document Type: Review

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