Variable-coronary vasomotor responses to acetylcholine in patients with normal coronary arteriograms: Evidence for localised endothelial dysfunction

Heart

Volumn 75, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 261-266

  Tousoulis, D ^a   Davies, G ^a   Lefroy, D C ^a   Haider, A W ^a   Crake, T ^b  

^a HAMMERSMITH HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^b ST BARTHOLOMEW S HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Acetylcholine; Endothelium; Vasoconstriction; Vasodilation

Indexed keywords

ACETYLCHOLINE; ISOSORBIDE DINITRATE;

ADULT; AGED; ANGIOCARDIOGRAPHY; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORONARY ARTERY CONSTRICTION; CORONARY ARTERY DILATATION; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; ENDOTHELIUM; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE DIAGNOSIS; THORAX PAIN;

ACETYLCHOLINE; ADULT; AGED; CHEST PAIN; CORONARY ANGIOGRAPHY; CORONARY VESSELS; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, DRUG; ENDOTHELIUM, VASCULAR; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; VASOMOTOR SYSTEM;

EID: 0029918004     PISSN: 13556037     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/hrt.75.3.261     Document Type: Article

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