Diffuse intimal thickening of coronary arteries in patients with coronary spastic angina

Journal of the American College of Cardiology

Volumn 36, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 432-437

  Miyao, Yuji ^a   Kugiyama, Kiyotaka ^a   Kawano, Hiroaki ^a   Motoyama, Takeshi ^a   Ogawa, Hisao ^a   Yoshimura, Michihiro ^a   Sakamoto, Tomohiro ^a   Yasue, Hirofumi ^a  

^a KUMAMOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACETYLCHOLINE; ISOSORBIDE DINITRATE;

ADULT; AGED; ANGINA PECTORIS; ANGIOCARDIOGRAPHY; ARTERY INTIMA PROLIFERATION; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORONARY ARTERY ATHEROSCLEROSIS; CORONARY ARTERY SPASM; CORONARY RISK; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DISEASE SEVERITY; FEMALE; HUMAN; INTRAVASCULAR ULTRASOUND; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; PROVOCATION TEST; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; RISK FACTOR;

AGED; ANGINA PECTORIS; CORONARY VESSELS; ENDOTHELIUM, VASCULAR; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NITRIC OXIDE; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; TUNICA INTIMA; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, INTERVENTIONAL;

EID: 0033854325     PISSN: 07351097     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0735-1097(00)00729-4     Document Type: Article

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