Limited role of coronary angioplasty and stenting in coronary spastic angina with organic stenosis

Journal of the American College of Cardiology

Volumn 39, Issue 7, 2002, Pages 1120-1126

  Tanabe, Yasuhiko ^a,b   Itoh, Eiichi ^a   Suzuki, Kaoru ^a   Ito, Masahiro ^a   Hosaka, Yukio ^a   Nakagawa, Iwao ^a   Kumakura, Makoto ^a  

^a Niigata Prefectural Shibata Hospital   (Japan)

^b Niigata Prefectural Shibata Hospital   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACETYLCHOLINE; CALCIUM ANTAGONIST;

ADULT; AGED; ANGINA PECTORIS; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CORONARY ARTERY DILATATION; CORONARY ARTERY OBSTRUCTION; CORONARY ARTERY SPASM; CORONARY STENT; DISEASE SEVERITY; FEMALE; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; MALE; PERCUTANEOUS TRANSLUMINAL ANGIOPLASTY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESTENOSIS; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VASODILATATION;

ACETYLCHOLINE; AGED; ANGINA PECTORIS, VARIANT; ANGIOPLASTY, TRANSLUMINAL, PERCUTANEOUS CORONARY; CORONARY ANGIOGRAPHY; CORONARY STENOSIS; FEMALE; HUMANS; INJECTIONS, INTRA-ARTERIAL; MALE; STENTS;

EID: 0037012403     PISSN: 07351097     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0735-1097(02)01746-1     Document Type: Article

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