Clinical Significance of the Calcification of Coronary Arteries in Patients with Angiographically Normal Coronary Arteries

Angiology

Volumn 43, Issue 5, 1992, Pages 401-407

  Sekiya, Michihito ^a   Mukai, Mikio ^a   Suzuki, Makoto ^a   Ohtani, Takashi ^a   Abe, Mitsunori ^a   Matsuoka, Hiroshi ^a   Sumimoto, Takumi ^a   Fujiwara, Yasushi ^a   Hamada, Mareomi ^a   Hiwada, Kunio ^a  

^a EHIME UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTERY CALCIFICATION; ARTICLE; CINEANGIOCARDIOGRAPHY; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORONARY ARTERY; CORONARY ARTERY BLOOD FLOW; CORONARY ARTERY OBSTRUCTION; EXERCISE ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; EXERCISE TOLERANCE; FEMALE; HEART CATHETERIZATION; HEART EJECTION FRACTION; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE FUNCTION; HEMODYNAMIC MONITORING; HUMAN; LEFT ANTERIOR DESCENDING CORONARY ARTERY; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SYSTOLIC TIME INTERVAL;

ANGINA PECTORIS; CALCINOSIS; CINERADIOGRAPHY; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CORONARY ANGIOGRAPHY; CORONARY DISEASE; EXERCISE TEST; FEMALE; HEART CATHETERIZATION; HEMODYNAMICS; HUMAN; MALE; MIDDLE AGE; SYSTOLE;

EID: 0026546690     PISSN: 00033197     EISSN: 19401574     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/000331979204300505     Document Type: Article

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