Usefulness of massive oral nicorandil in a patient with variant angina refractory to conventional treatment

Internal Medicine

Volumn 42, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 163-167

  Kurisu, Satoshi ^a   Inoue, Ichiro ^a   Kawagoe, Takuji ^a   Ishihara, Masaharu ^a   Shimatani, Yuji ^a   Nishioka, Kenji ^a   Nakamura, Shuji ^a   Umemura, Takashi ^a   Yoshida, Masashi ^a  

^a HIROSHIMA CITY HOSPITAL   (Japan)

Author keywords

Chest pain; Coronary spasm; Electrocardiography; ST segment

Indexed keywords

ACETYLCHOLINE; ALPHA TOCOPHEROL; CALCIUM ANTAGONIST; DENOPAMINE; DILTIAZEM; DOXAZOSIN; GLYCERYL TRINITRATE; ISOSORBIDE MONONITRATE; NICORANDIL; NIFEDIPINE; NITRATE;

AGED; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; CORONARY ARTERY SPASM; DISEASE ACTIVITY; DRUG EFFICACY; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HUMAN; MALE; RECURRENT DISEASE; ST SEGMENT ELEVATION; VARIANT ANGINA PECTORIS;

EID: 0037299279     PISSN: 09182918     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2169/internalmedicine.42.163     Document Type: Article

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