Quantitative Coronary and Left Ventricular Cineangiography: Methodology and Clinical Applications: Developments in Cardiovascular Medicine, cartea 51

One - Methodology.- I. Left ventricular and Coronary Cineangiography; Overview of Techniques, Applications and Limitations.- II Cineangiocardiography.- III. Cardiovascular Angiography Analysis System (CAAS) 62.- IV. Contouromat - A hard-wired left ventricular angio processing system.- V. Validation quantitation techniques of coronary and left ventricular cineangiograms.- VI. Assessment of dimensions and image quality of coronary contrast catheters from cineangiograms.- VII. Densitometric analysis coronary cineangiograms.- VIII. 3-D reconstruction of coronary arterial segments from two projections.- IX. Structural analysis of the coronary and retinal arterial trees 185.- X. A methodological review of quantification systems for coronary and left ventricular cineangiograms.- XI Quantitative assessment of regional left ventricular function: Endocardial landmark motion.- XII. The cardiovascular database and the coronary reporting system.- Two - Clinical Applications.- XIII. Influence of intracoronary nifedipine on left ventricular function, coronary vasomotility, and myocardial oxygen consumption 275.- XIV. Effect of intracoronary thrombolytic therapy on global and regional left ventricular function. A three years experience with randomization.- XV. Effect of coronary occlusion during percutaneous transluminal angioplasty in man on left ventricular chamber stiffness and regional diastolic pressure-radius relations.- XVI. Is transluminal coronary angioplasty mandatory after successful thrombolysis? A quantitative coronary angiographic study 326.- XVII. Assessment of percutaneous transluminal coronary angioplasty by quantitative coronary angiography: diameter versus densitometric area measurements.- XVIII. Left ventricular performance, regional blood flow, wall motion and lactate metabolism during transluminal angioplasty.- XIX. The role of vascular wall thickening during changes in coronary artery tone.- XX. Responses of normal and obstructed coronary arterial segments to cold stimulation; a quantitative angiographic study.- XXI Quantitative angiography of the left anterior descending coronary artery: correlations with pressure gradient and exercise thallium scintigraphy.- XXII. Quantitative coronary angiography in a lipid intervention study (The Leiden Diet Intervention Trial).- XXIII. Asynchrony in regional filling dynamics as a consequence of uncoordinated segmental contraction during coronary transluminal occlusion.- Index of subjects.