Widespread coronary inflammation in unstable angina

New England Journal of Medicine

Volumn 347, Issue 1, 2002, Pages 5-12

  Buffon, Antonino ^a   Biasucci, Luigi M ^a   Liuzzo, Giovanna ^a   D'Onofrio, Giuseppe ^a   Crea, Filippo ^a   Maseri, Attilio ^b,c  

^a CATHOLIC UNIVERSITY   (Italy)

^b VITA SALUTE SAN RAFFAELE UNIVERSITY   (Italy)

^c SAN RAFFAELE HOSPITAL   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MYELOPEROXIDASE;

ADULT; AGED; ANGINA PECTORIS; AORTA; ARTICLE; ATHEROSCLEROTIC PLAQUE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORONARY ARTERY OBSTRUCTION; CORONARY BLOOD VESSEL; FEMALE; FEMORAL VEIN; HEART MUSCLE ISCHEMIA; HEART RUPTURE; HUMAN; INFLAMMATION; LEFT ANTERIOR DESCENDING CORONARY ARTERY; LEUKOCYTE ACTIVATION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NEUTROPHIL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RIGHT CORONARY ARTERY; UNSTABLE ANGINA PECTORIS;

AGED; ANGINA PECTORIS; ANGINA, UNSTABLE; AORTA; BIOLOGICAL MARKERS; C-REACTIVE PROTEIN; CATHETERIZATION, CENTRAL VENOUS; CATHETERIZATION, PERIPHERAL; CORONARY CIRCULATION; CORONARY STENOSIS; FEMALE; FEMORAL VEIN; HUMANS; INFLAMMATION; ISOSORBIDE DINITRATE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MYOCARDIAL ISCHEMIA; NEUTROPHIL ACTIVATION; NEUTROPHILS; PEROXIDASE; STATISTICS, NONPARAMETRIC; VASODILATOR AGENTS;

EID: 0037019329     PISSN: 00284793     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1056/NEJMoa012295     Document Type: Article

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