Coronary calcifications in young patients with first, unheralded myocardial infarction: A risk factor matched analysis by electron beam tomography

Heart

Volumn 89, Issue 6, 2003, Pages 625-628

  Pohle, Karsten ^a   Ropers, D ^a   Maffert R ^a   Geitner, P ^a   Moshage, W ^b   Regenfus, M ^a   Kusus, M ^a   Daniel, W G ^a   Achenbach, S ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ERLANGEN NUREMBERG   (Germany)

^b Klinikum Traunstein   (Germany)

^c MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CALCIUM; CREATINE KINASE; CREATINE KINASE MB; TROPONIN C;

ACUTE HEART INFARCTION; ADULT; ANGIOGRAPHY; ARTERY CALCIFICATION; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; ELECTRON BEAM TOMOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK FACTOR; ST SEGMENT ELEVATION;

EID: 0038824193     PISSN: 13556037     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/heart.89.6.625     Document Type: Article

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