Platelet aggregation in acute coronary syndromes: Use of a new aggregometer with laser light scattering to assess platelet aggregability

Cardiovascular Research

Volumn 40, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 223-229

  Eto, Koji ^a   Takeshita, Satoshi ^a   Ochiai, Masahiko ^a   Ozaki, Yukio ^b   Sato, Tomohide ^a   Isshiki, Takaaki ^a  

^a TEIKYO UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF YAMANASHI   (Japan)

Author keywords

Atherosclerosis; Coronary disease; Ischemia; Platelets; Thrombosis

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORONARY ARTERY THROMBOSIS; DEVICE; FEMALE; HEART INFARCTION; HUMAN; LIGHT SCATTERING; MALE; PATHOGENESIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; THROMBOCYTE AGGREGATION; UNSTABLE ANGINA PECTORIS;

ACUTE DISEASE; ADENOSINE DIPHOSPHATE; ADRENERGIC AGONISTS; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANGINA, UNSTABLE; BLOOD COAGULATION TESTS; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; CORONARY DISEASE; EPINEPHRINE; FEMALE; HUMANS; LASERS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MYOCARDIAL INFARCTION; PLATELET AGGREGATION; SCATTERING, RADIATION;

EID: 0032190008     PISSN: 00086363     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0008-6363(98)00114-X     Document Type: Article

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