Clinical characteristics of patients with variant angina complicated by myocardial infarction or death within 1 month

The American Journal of Cardiology

Volumn 49, Issue 4, 1982, Pages 658-664

  Waters, David D ^a   Szlachcic, Jadwiga ^a   Miller, Douglas ^a   Theroux, Pierre ^a  

^a MONTREAL HEART INSTITUTE   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DILTIAZEM; NIFEDIPINE; VERAPAMIL;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; CORONARY ARTERY SPASM; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HEART INFARCTION; HUMAN; MALE; MORTALITY; SUDDEN DEATH; VARIANT ANGINA PECTORIS;

ADULT; ANGINA PECTORIS, VARIANT; CORONARY DISEASE; CORONARY VASOSPASM; DEATH, SUDDEN; DILTIAZEM; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; MIDDLE AGE; MYOCARDIAL INFARCTION; NIFEDIPINE; SUPPORT, NON-U.S. GOV'T; VERAPAMIL;

EID: 0020104373     PISSN: 00029149     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0002-9149(82)91943-9     Document Type: Article

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