Diffuse disorder of coronary artery vasomotility in patients with coronary spastic angina: Hyperreactivity to the constrictor effects of acetylcholine and the dilator effects of nitroglycerin

Journal of the American College of Cardiology

Volumn 27, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 45-52

  Okumura, Ken ^a   Yasue, Hirofumi ^a   Matsuyama, Kozaburo ^a   Ogawa, Hisao ^a   Kugiyama, Kiyotaka ^a   Ishizaka, Hiroshi ^a   Sumida, Hitoshi ^a   Fujii, Hiromi ^a   Matsunaga, Toshiro ^a   Tsunoda, Ryusuke ^a  

^a KUMAMOTO UNIV SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACETYLCHOLINE; GLYCERYL TRINITRATE;

ADULT; AGE; AGED; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORONARY ARTERY CONSTRICTION; CORONARY ARTERY SPASM; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; PATHOGENESIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

EID: 0030044117     PISSN: 07351097     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0735-1097(95)00432-7     Document Type: Article

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