Coronary flow reserve in patients with vasospastic angina: Correlation between coronary flow reserve and age or duration of angina

Coronary Artery Disease

Volumn 14, Issue 6, 2003, Pages 423-429

  Sueda, Shozo ^a,b   Kohno, Hiroaki ^a   Fukuda, Hiroshi ^a   Uraoka, Tadao ^c  

^a Saiseikai Saijo Hospital   (Japan)

^b Saiseikai Saijo Hospital   (Japan)

^c NONE

Author keywords

Coronary flow reserve; Diffuse spasm; Duration of angina; Focal spasm; Vasospastic angina

Indexed keywords

ACETYLCHOLINE; ISOSORBIDE DINITRATE;

ADULT; AGED; ANGINA PECTORIS; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORONARY ARTERY BLOOD FLOW; CORONARY ARTERY SPASM; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DISEASE DURATION; DOPPLER ECHOGRAPHY; FEMALE; GUIDE WIRE; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HUMAN; HYPEREMIA; LEFT ANTERIOR DESCENDING CORONARY ARTERY; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; VASOSPASM;

AGE FACTORS; AGED; BLOOD FLOW VELOCITY; CORONARY CIRCULATION; CORONARY VASOSPASM; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; STATISTICS; STROKE VOLUME; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 0041326726     PISSN: 09546928     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00019501-200309000-00002     Document Type: Article

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