Are Coronary Artery Anomalies an Accelerating Factor for Coronary Atherosclerosis Development?

Angiology

Volumn 55, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 29-35

  Rigatelli, Gianluca ^a,c   Gemelli, Marzio ^b   Zamboni, Alberto ^b   Docali, Giorgio ^b   Rossi, Paolo ^b   Rossi, Daniele ^b   Grazio, Mirella ^b   Franco, Gianfranco ^b   Rigatelli, Giorgio ^b  

^a EndoCardioVascular Therapy Research   (Italy)

^b Legnago Hospital   (Italy)

^c NONE   (Italy)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ACUTE HEART INFARCTION; ADULT; AGED; ANGIOCARDIOGRAPHY; ARTICLE; ATHEROGENESIS; CAUSE OF DEATH; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CORONARY ARTERY ANOMALY; CORONARY ARTERY ATHEROSCLEROSIS; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; CORONARY VESSEL MALFORMATION; DISEASE COURSE; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HEART EJECTION FRACTION; HUMAN; MALE; RADIOGRAPHY; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; RISK FACTOR; SILENT MYOCARDIAL ISCHEMIA; SURVIVAL; SURVIVAL RATE; TRANSLUMINAL CORONARY ANGIOPLASTY; UNSTABLE ANGINA PECTORIS;

EID: 0345832256     PISSN: 00033197     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/000331970405500105     Document Type: Article

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