Comparison of response to serotonin of radial artery grafts and internal mammary grafts to native coronary arteries and the effect of diltiazem

American Journal of Cardiology

Volumn 83, Issue 4, 1999, Pages 592-596

  Sperti, Giovanni ^a   Manasse, Eric ^b   Kol, Amir ^b   Canosa, Carlo ^b   Grego, Susanna ^b   Milici, Caterina ^b   Schiavello, Rocco ^b   Possati, Gian Federico ^b   Crea, Filippo ^b   Maseri, Attilio ^b  

^a CATHOLIC UNIVERSITY   (Italy)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DILTIAZEM; SEROTONIN;

ADULT; AGED; ANGINA PECTORIS; ARTERY CONSTRICTION; ARTERY DIAMETER; ARTERY GRAFT; ARTERY TONE; ARTICLE; BLOOD VESSEL REACTIVITY; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CORONARY ARTERY; CORONARY ARTERY BYPASS GRAFT; DRUG EFFECT; DRUG INFUSION; FEMALE; HEART MUSCLE REVASCULARIZATION; HUMAN; INTERNAL MAMMARY ARTERY; INTRAVENOUS DRUG ADMINISTRATION; MALE; ORAL DRUG ADMINISTRATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIAL ARTERY;

AGED; CORONARY ANGIOGRAPHY; CORONARY DISEASE; CORONARY VESSELS; DILTIAZEM; FEMALE; FREE RADICAL SCAVENGERS; HUMANS; INTERNAL MAMMARY-CORONARY ARTERY ANASTOMOSIS; ISOSORBIDE DINITRATE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RADIAL ARTERY; SEROTONIN; VASOCONSTRICTION;

EID: 0033557534     PISSN: 00029149     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0002-9149(98)00920-5     Document Type: Article

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