Anginalike pain and normal coronary arteries: Uncovering cardiac syndromes that mimic CAD

Postgraduate Medicine

Volumn 117, Issue 5, 2005, Pages

  Mirza, M Ayoub ^a  

^a GEISINGER MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMINOPHYLLINE; ARGININE; BETA ADRENERGIC RECEPTOR BLOCKING AGENT; CALCIUM CHANNEL BLOCKING AGENT; DIPEPTIDYL CARBOXYPEPTIDASE INHIBITOR; EPHEDRINE; NITRATE; SUMATRIPTAN; SUMATRIPTAN SUCCINATE; TRICYCLIC ANTIDEPRESSANT AGENT;

ANGINA PECTORIS; AORTA STENOSIS; CARDIAC SYNDROME X; CORONARY ARTERY; CORONARY ARTERY ATHEROSCLEROSIS; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; HEART DISEASE; HUMAN; MITRAL VALVE PROLAPSE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; REVIEW; SYSTEMIC DISEASE; THORAX PAIN; THYROTOXICOSIS;

EID: 19944417257     PISSN: 00325481     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3810/pgm.2005.05.1642     Document Type: Review

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