Pathophysiology and Management of Patients with Chest Pain and Normal Coronary Arteriograms (Cardiac Syndrome X)

Circulation

Volumn 109, Issue 5, 2004, Pages 568-572

  Kaski, Juan Carlos ^a  

^a ST GEORGE'S UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMINOPHYLLINE; ATENOLOL; DILTIAZEM; ESTROGEN; IMIPRAMINE; NITRATE;

ADULT; ANGIOCARDIOGRAPHY; CARDIAC SYNDROME X; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL FEATURE; DIAGNOSTIC APPROACH ROUTE; DISEASE COURSE; ELECTROCARDIOGRAM; EXERCISE; EXERCISE TEST; FEMALE; HEART DISEASE; HEART MUSCLE ISCHEMIA; HORMONAL THERAPY; HUMAN; PATHOGENESIS; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; PSYCHOTHERAPY; REVIEW; ST SEGMENT DEPRESSION; SYNDROME; THORAX PAIN; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ANGINA PECTORIS; CHEST PAIN; CORONARY ANGIOGRAPHY; CORONARY VESSELS; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMANS; MICROCIRCULATION; MIDDLE AGED; MYOCARDIAL ISCHEMIA; PERCEPTION; PROGNOSIS; SYNDROME;

EID: 1042278722     PISSN: 00097322     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1161/01.CIR.0000116601.58103.62     Document Type: Review

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