Clandestine ischemia in patients with vasospastic angina

Coronary Artery Disease

Volumn 11, Issue 5, 2000, Pages 383-390

  Coma Canella, Isabel ^a   Martínez Caro, Diego ^a   Cosín Sales, Juan ^a   Fernandez Jarne, Elena ^a   García Velloso, José Maria ^a   Gimenez, Marta ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY CLINIC OF NAVARRA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Clandestine ischemia; Exercise stress test; Thallium scintigraphy; Variant angina; Vasospastic angina

Indexed keywords

ERGOMETRINE; THALLIUM 201;

ADULT; AGED; ANGINA PECTORIS; ANGIOCARDIOGRAPHY; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; EXERCISE TEST; FEMALE; HEART MUSCLE ISCHEMIA; HEART SCINTISCANNING; HUMAN; LEFT ANTERIOR DESCENDING CORONARY ARTERY; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RIGHT CORONARY ARTERY; ST SEGMENT ELEVATION; TOMOGRAPHY; VASOSPASM;

ADULT; AGED; ANGINA PECTORIS, VARIANT; CORONARY ANGIOGRAPHY; CORONARY VESSELS; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; ERGONOVINE; EXERCISE TEST; FEMALE; HUMANS; INJECTIONS, INTRA-ARTERIAL; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MYOCARDIAL ISCHEMIA; OXYTOCICS; TOMOGRAPHY, EMISSION-COMPUTED, SINGLE-PHOTON;

EID: 0033918525     PISSN: 09546928     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00019501-200007000-00002     Document Type: Article

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