Validation of a clinical-significance-based classification of coronary artery anomalies

Angiology

Volumn 56, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 25-34

  Rigatelli, Gianluca ^a,b   Docali, Giorgio ^a   Rossi, Paolo ^a   Bandello, Attilio ^a   Rigatelli, Giorgio ^a  

^a EndoCardioVascular Therapy Research ^*  (Italy)

^b Legnago General Hospital   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ANGIOCARDIOGRAPHY; ARTICLE; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE; CLINICAL FEATURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORONARY ARTERY ANOMALY; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DISEASE CLASSIFICATION; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HEART MUSCLE ISCHEMIA; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PATIENT SELECTION; PUBLIC HOSPITAL; SUDDEN DEATH; SURVIVAL TIME;

ACTUARIAL ANALYSIS; AGED; CAUSE OF DEATH; CORONARY ANGIOGRAPHY; CORONARY DISEASE; CORONARY VESSEL ANOMALIES; DEATH, SUDDEN, CARDIAC; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HOSPITALS, PUBLIC; HUMANS; ITALY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MYOCARDIAL ISCHEMIA; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; RISK ASSESSMENT;

EID: 12944333123     PISSN: 00033197     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/000331970505600104     Document Type: Article

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