Coronary artery calcium in acute coronary syndromes: A comparative study of electron-beam computed tomography, coronary angiography, and intracoronary ultrasound in survivors of acute myocardial infarction and unstable angina

Circulation

Volumn 96, Issue 5, 1997, Pages 1461-1469

  Schmermund, Axel ^a   Baumgart, Dietrich ^c   Görge, Günter ^c   Seibel, Rainer ^b   Grönemeyer, Dietrich ^c   Ge, Junbo ^c   Haude, Michael ^c   Rumberger, John ^a   Erbel, Raimund ^c  

^a MAYO CLINIC   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WITTEN HERDECKE   (Germany)

^c Cardiovascular Diseases ^*

Author keywords

Angina; Calcium; Coronary disease; Imaging; Myocardial infarction

Indexed keywords

ACUTE HEART INFARCTION; ADULT; AGED; ANGIOCARDIOGRAPHY; ARTICLE; ATHEROSCLEROTIC PLAQUE; CALCIFICATION; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CORONARY ARTERY; CORONARY ARTERY ATHEROSCLEROSIS; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; ECHOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HEART MUSCLE ISCHEMIA; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SMOKING; UNSTABLE ANGINA PECTORIS;

EID: 0030800522     PISSN: 00097322     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1161/01.CIR.96.5.1461     Document Type: Article

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