Multivessel spontaneous coronary artery dissection in a patient with severe systolic hypertension: A possible association - A case report

Angiology

Volumn 50, Issue 6, 1999, Pages 509-513

  Greenblatt, Jeff M ^a   Kochar, Gupreet S ^a   Albornoz, M Anthony ^a  

^a MERCY CATHOLIC MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GLYCERYL TRINITRATE;

AGED; ARTERY DISSECTION; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL FEATURE; CORONARY ARTERY BYPASS GRAFT; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DISEASE COURSE; FEMALE; HUMAN; PATHOGENESIS; SCINTIANGIOCARDIOGRAPHY; SYSTOLIC HYPERTENSION;

EID: 0033000461     PISSN: 00033197     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/000331979905000610     Document Type: Article

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