Coronary artery stenosis

Author(s)

• Gould, K. Lance

Bibliographic Information

Coronary artery stenosis

K. Lance Gould

Elsevier, c1991

Note

Includes bibliographical references and index

Description and Table of Contents

Description

Incorporating 20 years of clinical, physiologic and technological research, this book develops the scientific basis for new approaches to the diagnosis and management of symptomatic and asyptomatic coronary atherosclerosis.

Table of Contents

• Anatomic and functional characteristics of coronary artery stenosis
• physiology of coronary circulation
• methods for pressure-flow analysis and arteriography
• interactions with the coronary vascular bed
• phasic pressure flow and fluid dynamic analysis
• phasic pressure flow and arteriographic geometry
• collapsing stenoses
• coronary flow reserve
• quantitative coronary arteriography
• reversal by risk factor modication
• positron emission tomography of the heart
• prinicples of cardiac PET
• PET perfusion imaging
• quantitation of PET perfusion images
• coronary collateral function assessed by PET
• assessing myocardial infarction, ischemia and viability
• PET compared to other imaging modalities
• accuracy and performance of the positron scanner
• economics of cardiac PET
• radiation burden, facilities and regulatory status
• clinical case studies with PET.

by "Nielsen BookData"

• NCID: BA12058078
• ISBN:
  • 0444015442
• LCCN: 90003927
• Country Code: us
• Title Language Code: eng
• Text Language Code: eng
• Place of Publication: New York
• Pages/Volumes: xi, 323 p.
• Size: 29 cm
• Classification:
  • LCC : RC685.C58
  • NLM : WG 300 G697c
  • DC20 : 616.1/23
• Subject Headings:
  • LCSH : Coronary artery stenosis -- Pathophysiology
  • LCSH : Heart -- Tomography
  • MESH : Constriction, Pathologic -- diagnosis
  • MESH : Coronary Circulation -- physiology
  • MESH : Coronary Disease -- diagnosis
  • MESH : Heart -- radiography
  • MESH : Tomography, Emission-Computed