Is inflammation related to the clinical severity of unstable angina?

Japanese Circulation Journal

Volumn 65, Issue 5, 2001, Pages 414-418

  Kojima, Sunao ^a   Nonogi, Hiroshi ^a   Morii, Isao ^a   Sumida, Hitoshi ^a   Sutani, Yasuo ^a   Yasuda, Satoshi ^a   Daikoku, Satoshi ^a   Goto, Yoichi ^a   Miyazaki, Shunichi ^a  

^a NATIONAL CEREBRAL AND CARDIOVASCULAR CENTER   (Japan)

Author keywords

C reactive protein; Medically refractory angina; Unstable angina; White blood cells

Indexed keywords

C REACTIVE PROTEIN;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; FEMALE; HUMAN; INFLAMMATION; LEUKOCYTE COUNT; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; TRANSLUMINAL CORONARY ANGIOPLASTY; UNSTABLE ANGINA PECTORIS;

ANGINA, UNSTABLE; ANGIOPLASTY, TRANSLUMINAL, PERCUTANEOUS CORONARY; C-REACTIVE PROTEIN; HUMANS; INFLAMMATION; LEUKOCYTE COUNT;

EID: 0347869019     PISSN: 00471828     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1253/jcj.65.414     Document Type: Article

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