Effect of hypertension and cardiac hypertrophy on coronary artery morphology in sudden cardiac death

Circulation

Volumn 94, Issue 12, 1996, Pages 3138-3145

  Burke, Allen P ^a   Farb, Andrew ^a   Liang, You Hui ^a   Smialek, John ^a   Virmani, Renu ^a  

^a ARMED FORCES INSTITUTE OF PATHOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

coronary disease; death, sudden; hypertension; hypertrophy

Indexed keywords

BETA ADRENERGIC RECEPTOR BLOCKING AGENT; CAPTOPRIL; CLONIDINE; DIURETIC AGENT;

ADULT; AGED; ANGIOCARDIOGRAPHY; ARTICLE; AUTOPSY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; FEMALE; HEART ARRHYTHMIA; HEART VENTRICLE HYPERTROPHY; HEART WEIGHT; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; HYPERTENSION; KIDNEY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORPHOLOGY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SUDDEN DEATH;

EID: 0030478321     PISSN: 00097322     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1161/01.CIR.94.12.3138     Document Type: Article

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