Unstable angina associated with coronary arterial calcification in a thalassemia intermedia patient with a pseudoxanthoma elasticum-like syndrome

European Journal of Haematology

Volumn 70, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 64-66

  Farmakis, Dimitrios ^a   Moyssakis, Ioannis ^b   Perakis, Alexandros ^b   Rombos, Yiannis ^a   Deftereos, Spyros ^a   Giakoumis, Anastasios ^a   Polymeropoulos, Evangelos ^a   Aessopos, Athanasios ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Greece)

^b LAIKO GENERAL HOSPITAL   (Greece)

Author keywords

Arterial calcification; Coronary artery disease; Pseudoxanthoma elasticum; Thalassemia

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANEMIA; ARTERY CALCIFICATION; ARTICLE; ATHEROSCLEROSIS; CASE REPORT; COMORBIDITY; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; HEMOGLOBINOPATHY; HUMAN; MALE; PATHOGENESIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSEUDOXANTHOMA ELASTICUM; THALASSEMIA; UNSTABLE ANGINA PECTORIS;

EID: 12244313926     PISSN: 09024441     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1034/j.1600-0609.2003.02846_70_1.x     Document Type: Article

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