Journal of the American Society of Echocardiography
Volume 14, Issue 8 , Pages 773-781 , August 2001

Assessment of no-reflow phenomenon after acute myocardial infarction with harmonic angiography and intravenous pump infusion with Levovist: Comparison with intracoronary contrast injection

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☆ Reprint requests: Luciano Agati, MD, Echocardiography Laboratory, Department of Cardiology, “La Sapienza” University of Rome, Policlinico Umberto I, Viale del Policlinico, 155, 00161 Rome, Italy (E-mail: Luciano.Agati@uniroma1.it).

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Journal of the American Society of Echocardiography
Volume 14, Issue 8 , Pages 773-781 , August 2001

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