Coronary artery distensibility in diabetic patients with simultaneous measurements of luminal area and intracoronary pressure: Evidence of impaired reactivity to nitroglycerin

Journal of the American College of Cardiology

Volumn 34, Issue 4, 1999, Pages 1075-1081

  Vavuranakis, Manolis ^a,b   Stefanadis, Christodoulos ^a   Triandaphyllidi, Eleni ^a   Toutouzas, Konstantinos ^a   Toutouzas, Pavlos ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS   (Greece)

^b NONE   (Greece)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GLYCERYL TRINITRATE;

ADULT; ARTERY BLOOD FLOW; ARTERY DIAMETER; ARTERY INTIMA; ARTICLE; ATHEROSCLEROTIC PLAQUE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORONARY ARTERY DILATATION; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; CORONARY ARTERY PRESSURE; FEMALE; HUMAN; INTRACORONARY INFUSION; INTRAVASCULAR ULTRASOUND; MALE; NON INSULIN DEPENDENT DIABETES MELLITUS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; VASCULAR SMOOTH MUSCLE;

ADULT; AGED; BLOOD PRESSURE; CORONARY DISEASE; CORONARY VESSELS; DIABETES MELLITUS, TYPE 2; DIABETIC ANGIOPATHIES; DIASTOLE; ELASTICITY; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; ENDOSONOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HEART CATHETERIZATION; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NITRIC OXIDE; NITROGLYCERIN; OBSERVER VARIATION; SYSTOLE; VASODILATION; VASODILATOR AGENTS;

EID: 0033212947     PISSN: 07351097     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0735-1097(99)00331-9     Document Type: Article

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