Coronary flow reserve - measurement and application: Focus on transthoracic Doppler echocardiography

Coronary flow reserve is an important functional parameter to understand the pathophysiology of coronary circulation. Coronary flow reserve measurement is used to assess epicardial coronary stenoses or to examine the integrity of microvascular circulation

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Coronary flow reserve - measurement and application: Focus on transthoracic Doppler echocardiography

Pawel Petkow-Dimitrow, MD 2nd Department of Cardiology Jagiellonian University School of Medicine Krakow

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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data A C.I.P. Catalogue record for this book is available from the Library of Congress. ISBN 978-1-4615-1125-0 (eBook) ISBN 978-1-4613-5406-2 DOI 10.1007/978-1-4615-1125-0 Coronary Flow Reserve- Measurement and Application: Focus on transthoracic Doppler echocardiography by Pawel Petkow-Dimitrow Copyright © 2002 by Springer Science+Business Media New York Originally published by K1uwer Academic Publishers in 2002 Softcover reprint ofthe hardcover 1st edition 2002 AII rights reserved. No part ofthis work may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, microfilming, recording, or otherwise, without the written permission from the Publisher, with the exception of any material supplied specifically for the purpose ofbeing entered and executed on a computer system, for exclusive use by the purchaser ofthe work.

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CONTENTS

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

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LIST OF ABBREVIATIONS

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INTRODUCTION

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CHAPTER I. BLOOD FLOW REGULATION IN CORONARY CIRCULATION CHAPTER 2. THE RANGE OF NORMAL VALUES FOR CORONARY FLOW RESERVE AND LESION-SPECIFIC PHYSIOLOGICAL MEASUREMENTS

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CHAPTER 3. APPLICATION OF NONINVASIVE DOPPLER ECHOCARDIOGRAP