Refractory vasospasm with a malignant course

Clinical Cardiology

Volumn 23, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 127-130

  Kumar, Ananth ^a   Chandna, Harish ^a   Santhanam, Vimala ^a   Denes, Pablo ^a  

^a MICHAEL REESE HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

Aortic occlusion; Cardiac transplantation; Smoking; Vasospastic angina

Indexed keywords

CALCIUM CHANNEL BLOCKING AGENT; DILTIAZEM; FIBRINOLYTIC AGENT; GLYCERYL TRINITRATE; ISOSORBIDE MONONITRATE; NITRATE;

ADULT; AORTA OCCLUSION; ARTICLE; CARDIOVASCULAR RISK; CASE REPORT; CIGARETTE SMOKING; CLINICAL FEATURE; CONGESTIVE HEART FAILURE; CORONARY ARTERY SPASM; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DISEASE COURSE; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; FIBRINOLYTIC THERAPY; HEART TRANSPLANTATION; HUMAN; INTRACORONARY INFUSION; KIDNEY ARTERY STENOSIS; MALE; MESENTERIC ARTERY OCCLUSION; PRINZMETAL ANGINA PECTORIS; RADIODIAGNOSIS;

EID: 0033970084     PISSN: 01609289     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/clc.4960230212     Document Type: Article

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