Diffuse intimal thickening of coronary arteries in slow coronary flow

Japanese Heart Journal

Volumn 44, Issue 6, 2003, Pages 907-919

  Cin, V Gökhan ^a   Pekdemir, Hasan ^a   Çamsar, Ahmet ^a   Çiçek, Dilek ^a   Akkus, M Necdet ^a   Parmaksýz, Tuncay ^a   Katýrcýbaoý, Tuna ^a   Döven, Oben ^a  

^a MERSIN UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

Atherosclerosis; Diffuse intimal thickening; Slow coronary flow

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANGIOCARDIOGRAPHY; ARTERY CALCIFICATION; ARTERY INTIMA PROLIFERATION; ARTICLE; ATHEROMA; ATHEROSCLEROSIS; BLOOD VESSEL DIAMETER; BLOOD VESSEL WALL; CALCULATION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORONARY ARTERY; CORONARY ARTERY BLOOD FLOW; CORONARY ARTERY PRESSURE; FEMALE; HUMAN; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; MALE; MICROVASCULARIZATION; MORPHOLOGY; PRESSURE GRADIENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; AGED; BLOOD FLOW VELOCITY; CALCINOSIS; CORONARY ARTERY ATHEROSCLEROSIS; CORONARY BLOOD VESSEL; ECHOGRAPHY; ENDOSCOPIC ECHOGRAPHY; HEART; INTIMA; MIDDLE AGED; PATHOLOGY; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; SCINTISCANNING; SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTER TOMOGRAPHY; TUNICA MEDIA;

AGED; BLOOD FLOW VELOCITY; CALCINOSIS; CORONARY ANGIOGRAPHY; CORONARY ARTERIOSCLEROSIS; CORONARY CIRCULATION; CORONARY VESSELS; FEMALE; HEART; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; TOMOGRAPHY, EMISSION-COMPUTED, SINGLE-PHOTON; TUNICA INTIMA; TUNICA MEDIA; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, INTERVENTIONAL;

EID: 1242286567     PISSN: 00214868     EISSN: 1348673X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1536/jhj.44.907     Document Type: Article

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