Coronary hyperreactivity to adrenergic stimulation and increased nocturnal vagal tone trigger coronary vasospasm

Japanese Circulation Journal

Volumn 62, Issue 10, 1998, Pages 721-726

  Saitoh, Tsutomu ^a   Kishida, Hiroshi ^a   Hanashi, Aya ^a   Tsukada, Yayoi ^a   Fukuma, Yumiko ^a   Sano, Junko ^a   Fukuma, Nagaharu ^a   Kusama, Yoshiki ^a   Hayakawa, Hirokazu ^a  

^a NIPPON MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Japan)

Author keywords

Autonomic nervous system activity; Coronary vasospasm; Vasospastic angina

Indexed keywords

ACETYLCHOLINE; GLUCOSE; INSULIN; NORADRENALIN; POTASSIUM;

ADRENERGIC STIMULATION; ADULT; AGED; ANGINA PECTORIS; ARTICLE; AUTONOMIC NERVOUS SYSTEM FUNCTION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORONARY ARTERY SPASM; FEMALE; GLUCOSE BLOOD LEVEL; HEART CATHETERIZATION; HEART CONTRACTION; HEART MUSCLE ISCHEMIA; HEART RATE VARIABILITY; HEMODYNAMICS; HUMAN; MALE; NORADRENALIN BLOOD LEVEL; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; POTASSIUM BLOOD LEVEL; ST SEGMENT DEPRESSION; VAGUS TONE;

AGED; ANGINA PECTORIS, VARIANT; AUTONOMIC NERVOUS SYSTEM; CORONARY VASOSPASM; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MYOCARDIAL ISCHEMIA;

EID: 0031686325     PISSN: 00471828     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1253/jcj.62.721     Document Type: Article

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