Serum neopterin levels and the angiographic extent of coronary arterial narrowing in unstable angina pectoris and in non-Q-wave acute myocardial infarction

American Journal of Cardiology

Volumn 83, Issue 4, 1999, Pages 515-518

  Gurfinkel, Enrique P ^a   Scirica, Benjamin M ^b   Bozovich, Gerardo ^b   Macchia, Alejandro ^b   Manos, Eustaquio ^b   Mautner, Branco ^b  

^a HOSPITAL UNIVERSITARIO FUNDACIÓN FAVALORO   (Argentina)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

C REACTIVE PROTEIN; CREATINE KINASE MB; NEOPTERIN;

ACUTE HEART INFARCTION; AGED; ANGIOCARDIOGRAPHY; ARTERY OCCLUSION; ARTICLE; ATHEROSCLEROSIS; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CORRELATION FUNCTION; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DISEASE MARKER; DISEASE SEVERITY; FEMALE; HUMAN; MACROPHAGE ACTIVATION; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; UNSTABLE ANGINA PECTORIS;

AGED; ANGINA, UNSTABLE; BIOLOGICAL MARKERS; CORONARY ANGIOGRAPHY; CORONARY ARTERIOSCLEROSIS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MYOCARDIAL INFARCTION; NEOPTERIN;

EID: 0033557891     PISSN: 00029149     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0002-9149(98)00905-9     Document Type: Article

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