Transesophageal Doppler evaluation of left anterior descending coronary artery angioplasty.
Transesophageal Doppler echocardiography can noninvasively evaluate the functional results of left anterior descending coronary artery angioplasty. Coronary flow reserve assessed by this technique is significantly increased only in those patients with less severe residual stenosis as detected by intravascular ultrasound, thus allowing a noninvasive assessment of the results of left anterior coronary artery angioplasty.
Paraskevaidis
I A
IA
Department of Cardiology, Onassis Cardiac Surgery Center, Athens, Greece.
Tsiapras
D P
DP
Kyriakides
Z S
ZS
Kremastinos DTh
D015906:Angioplasty, Balloon, Coronary; D001783:Blood Flow Velocity; D003326:Coronary Circulation; D003327:Coronary Disease / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging* / Q000628:therapy; D003331:Coronary Vessels / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging; D015150:Echocardiography, Doppler; D017548:Echocardiography, Transesophageal; D006801:Humans; D008875:Middle Aged; D018084:Ultrasonography, Interventional