Endothelial dysfunction, subangiographic atheroma, and unstable symptoms in patients with chest pain and normal coronary arteriograms

Clinical Cardiology

Volumn 23, Issue 9, 2000, Pages 645-652

  Clague, Jonathan R ^a   Bagger, Jens Peder ^b   Ward, David E ^c   Cox, Ian D ^c   Kaski, Juan Carlos ^c  

^a ROYAL BROMPTON HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^b HAMMERSMITH HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^c ST GEORGE'S UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Chest pain; Endothelial dysfunction; Normal coronary arteriogram; Subangiographic atheroma

Indexed keywords

ACETYLCHOLINE; ADENOSINE; GLYCERYL TRINITRATE;

ADULT; AGED; ANGIOCARDIOGRAPHY; ARTICLE; ATHEROMA; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CORONARY RISK; DOPPLER FLOWMETER; FEMALE; HUMAN; INTRACORONARY INFUSION; INTRAVASCULAR ULTRASOUND; LEFT ANTERIOR DESCENDING CORONARY ARTERY; MALE; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; SCORING SYSTEM; THORAX PAIN; UNSTABLE ANGINA PECTORIS; VASODILATATION; VASOMOTOR REFLEX;

ACETYLCHOLINE; ADENOSINE; CORONARY ARTERIOSCLEROSIS; CORONARY CIRCULATION; ENDOTHELIUM, VASCULAR; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; MIDDLE AGE; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; RISK FACTORS; SUPPORT, NON-U.S. GOV'T; SYNDROME X; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, INTERVENTIONAL; VASODILATOR AGENTS;

EID: 0033800070     PISSN: 01609289     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/clc.4960230904     Document Type: Article

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