Increased adhesiveness of peripheral blood leukocytes corresponds to the appearance of expansion following anterior wall myocardial infarction

Clinical Cardiology

Volumn 19, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 102-104

  Solodky, A ^a,c   Berliner, S ^b   Zafrir, N ^a   Winder, A ^b   Kuzniec, J ^a   Lifshitz, A ^a   Arber, N ^b   Sclarovsky, S ^a  

^a Heart Inst Beilinson Medical Campus ^*  (Israel)

^b TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

^c RABIN MEDICAL CENTER   (Israel)

Author keywords

aggregation; anterior wall myocardial infarction; infarct expansion; leukocyte adhesiveness

Indexed keywords

ACUTE HEART INFARCTION; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; FEMALE; HEART INFARCTION SIZE; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE ENDDIASTOLIC VOLUME; HUMAN; LEUKOCYTE ADHERENCE; LEUKOCYTE AGGREGATION; MALE; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY;

EID: 0029848454     PISSN: 01609289     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/clc.4960190206     Document Type: Article

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