Abdominal Aortic Aneurysm: Association Between Haptoglobin Phenotypes, Elastase Activity, and Neutrophil Count in the Peripheral Blood

Vascular and Endovascular Surgery

Volumn 35, Issue 5, 2001, Pages 345-350

  Wiernicki, Ireneusz ^a   Gutowski, Piotr ^b   Ciechanowski, Kazimierz ^b   Millo, Barbara ^b   Wieczorek, Piotr ^a   Cnotliwy, Miloslaw ^a   Michalak, Tomasz ^a   Hamera, Tomasz ^b   Piatek, Jaroslaw ^b  

^a Pomeranian Medical University ^*

^b POMERANIAN MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Poland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ELASTASE; ELASTIN; HAPTOGLOBIN;

ABDOMINAL AORTA ANEURYSM; ADULT; AGED; AORTA ATHEROSCLEROSIS; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE PREDISPOSITION; ENZYME ACTIVITY; FEMALE; HUMAN; LEUKOCYTE COUNT; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NEUTROPHIL; PHENOTYPE;

AGED; AORTIC ANEURYSM, ABDOMINAL; AORTIC VALVE STENOSIS; FEMALE; HAPTOGLOBINS; HUMANS; LEUKOCYTE COUNT; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEUTROPHILS; PANCREATIC ELASTASE; PHENOTYPE; POLAND;

EID: 0034804841     PISSN: 15385744     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/153857440103500503     Document Type: Article

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