Inhibition of Rho-kinase by fasudil prevents anginal attacks associated with spastic angina: A case report

Journal of Cardiology

Volumn 44, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 161-164

  Hiroki, Junko ^a   Fukumoto, Yoshihiro ^a   Shimokawa, Hiroaki ^a   Hirooka, Yoshitaka ^a   Takeshita, Akira ^a  

^a KYUSHU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Unstable angina (spastic); Vasodilator agents (Rho kinase inhibitor)

Indexed keywords

BENIDIPINE; CALCIUM ANTAGONIST; DILTIAZEM; FASUDIL; ISOSORBIDE DINITRATE; METOPROLOL; NICORANDIL; NITRATE; RHO KINASE; 1 (5 ISOQUINOLINESULFONYL) 2 METHYLPIPERAZINE; DRUG DERIVATIVE; PROTEIN KINASE INHIBITOR; PROTEIN SERINE THREONINE KINASE; RHO-ASSOCIATED KINASE; SIGNAL PEPTIDE; VASODILATOR AGENT;

AGED; ANGIOCARDIOGRAPHY; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; CORONARY ARTERY OBSTRUCTION; CORONARY ARTERY SPASM; DRUG EFFICACY; ELECTROCARDIOGRAM; ENZYME INHIBITION; FEMALE; HUMAN; PERCUTANEOUS CORONARY INTERVENTION; PERCUTANEOUS TRANSLUMINAL ANGIOPLASTY; RESTENOSIS; ST SEGMENT DEPRESSION; THORAX PAIN; UNSTABLE ANGINA PECTORIS; DRUG ANTAGONISM; INTRAVENOUS DRUG ADMINISTRATION; STENT; TRANSLUMINAL CORONARY ANGIOPLASTY; TREATMENT REFUSAL;

1-(5-ISOQUINOLINESULFONYL)-2-METHYLPIPERAZINE; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANGINA, UNSTABLE; ANGIOPLASTY, TRANSLUMINAL, PERCUTANEOUS CORONARY; CORONARY RESTENOSIS; CORONARY VASOSPASM; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFUSIONS, INTRAVENOUS; INTRACELLULAR SIGNALING PEPTIDES AND PROTEINS; PROTEIN KINASE INHIBITORS; PROTEIN-SERINE-THREONINE KINASES; STENTS; TREATMENT REFUSAL; VASODILATOR AGENTS;

EID: 16544384708     PISSN: 09145087     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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