Clinical observation of spontaneous anginal attacks and multivessel spasm in variant angina pectoris with normal coronary arteries: Evaluation by 24-hour 12-lead electrocardiography with computer analysis

Journal of the American College of Cardiology

Volumn 27, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 38-44

  Onaka, Haruhiko ^a   Hirota, Yuzo ^a   Shimada, Satoshi ^a   Kita, Yoshio ^a   Sakai, Yasuhiko ^a   Kawakami, Yoshihide ^a   Suzuki, Shuji ^a   Kawamura, Keishiro ^a  

^a OSAKA MEDICAL COLLEGE   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; ATRIOVENTRICULAR BLOCK; BRADYCARDIA; COMPLICATION; COMPUTER ANALYSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORONARY ARTERY SPASM; ELECTROCARDIOGRAM; EXTRASYSTOLE; FEMALE; HOLTER MONITORING; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; ST SEGMENT DEPRESSION; VARIANT ANGINA PECTORIS;

AGED; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANGINA PECTORIS, VARIANT; ARRHYTHMIA; CORONARY ANGIOGRAPHY; CORONARY VASOSPASM; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY, AMBULATORY; ERGONOVINE; FEMALE; HEART CATHETERIZATION; HUMANS; ISOSORBIDE DINITRATE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NOREPINEPHRINE; OXYTOCICS; PROGNOSIS; RISK FACTORS; SIGNAL PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; VASOCONSTRICTOR AGENTS; VASODILATOR AGENTS;

EID: 0030025538     PISSN: 07351097     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0735-1097(95)00423-8     Document Type: Article

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