Plaque Morphology at Coronary Sites with Focal Spasm in Variant Angina - Study Using Intravascular Ultrasound

Circulation Journal

Volumn 67, Issue 12, 2003, Pages 1041-1045

  Saito, Satoshi ^a   Yamagishi, Masakazu ^b   Takayama, Tadateru ^a   Chiku, Masaaki ^b   Koyama, Jun ^b   Ito, Kenichi ^b   Higashikata, Takeo ^b   Seguchi, Osamu ^b   Honye, Junko ^c   Kanmatsuse, Katsuo ^a  

^a NIHON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^b NATIONAL CEREBRAL AND CARDIOVASCULAR CENTER   (Japan)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

Author keywords

Atherosclerotic plaque; Coronary spasm; Intravascular ultrasound

Indexed keywords

ACETYLCHOLINE; ERGOMETRINE MALEATE;

ADULT; AGED; ANGINA PECTORIS; ANGIOCARDIOGRAPHY; ARTICLE; ATHEROSCLEROTIC PLAQUE; CORONARY ARTERY; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; CORONARY ARTERY SPASM; FEMALE; HEART CATHETERIZATION; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; INTRAVASCULAR ULTRASOUND; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORPHOLOGY; PROVOCATION TEST; ULTRASOUND; VARIANT ANGINA PECTORIS;

ADULT; AGED; ANGINA PECTORIS; CALCINOSIS; CORONARY STENOSIS; FEMALE; HEART CATHETERIZATION; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, INTERVENTIONAL;

EID: 10744232152     PISSN: 13469843     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1253/circj.67.1041     Document Type: Article

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