Heat production of atherosclerotic plaques and inflammation assessed by the acute phase proteins in acute coronary syndromes

Journal of Molecular and Cellular Cardiology

Volumn 32, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 43-52

  Stefanadis, Christodoulos ^a   Diamantopoulos, Leonidas ^a   Dernellis, John ^a   Economou, Emanuel ^a   Tsiamis, Eleftherios ^a   Toutouzas, Konstantinos ^a   Vlachopoulos, Charalambos ^a   Toutouzas, Pavlos ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS   (Greece)

Author keywords

Acute coronary syndromes; Acute phase reactants; Inflammation; Temperature

Indexed keywords

ACUTE PHASE PROTEIN; C REACTIVE PROTEIN; POLYURETHAN; SERUM AMYLOID A;

ACCURACY; ADULT; AGED; ANGINA PECTORIS; ARTICLE; ATHEROSCLEROTIC PLAQUE; BLOOD LEVEL; CATHETER; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORE TEMPERATURE; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; FEMALE; HEART MUSCLE ISCHEMIA; HUMAN; INFLAMMATION; ISCHEMIC HEART DISEASE; LIPID BLOOD LEVEL; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PATHOGENESIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TECHNIQUE; TEMPERATURE; THERMISTOR; THERMOGENESIS; THERMOGRAPHY;

ANGINA;

EID: 0033977648     PISSN: 00222828     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/jmcc.1999.1049     Document Type: Article

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