Effect of Fluvastatin therapy on coronary flow reserve in patients with hypercholesterolemia

American Journal of Cardiology

Volumn 93, Issue 11, 2004, Pages 1419-1421

  Fujimoto, Kohei ^b   Hozumi, Takeshi ^a   Watanabe, Hiroyuki ^b   Shimada, Kenei ^b   Takeuchi, Masaaki ^b   Sakanoue, Yuji ^b   Shimizu, Naruhito ^b   Ostuka, Ryo ^b   Kawase, Yoshio ^b   Sakamoto, Kazuo ^b   Yoshiyama, Minoru ^b   Baba, Yuji ^b   Haze, Kazuo ^b   Yoshikawa, Junichi ^b  

^a OSAKA CITY UNIVERSITY GRADUATE SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTILIPEMIC AGENT; BETA ADRENERGIC RECEPTOR BLOCKING AGENT; CALCIUM ANTAGONIST; DIPEPTIDYL CARBOXYPEPTIDASE INHIBITOR; FLUINDOSTATIN; NITRATE;

ADULT; AGED; ANAMNESIS; ARTICLE; CHOLESTEROL BLOOD LEVEL; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CORONARY ARTERY BLOOD FLOW; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; DOPPLER ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMAN; HYPERCHOLESTEROLEMIA; HYPEREMIA; HYPERTENSION; LABORATORY TEST; MALE; MICROCIRCULATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TRANSTHORACIC ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY;

CORONARY CIRCULATION; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY, DOPPLER; FATTY ACIDS, MONOUNSATURATED; FEMALE; HUMANS; HYDROXYMETHYLGLUTARYL-COA REDUCTASE INHIBITORS; HYPERCHOLESTEROLEMIA; INDOLES; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 20844441629     PISSN: 00029149     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.amjcard.2004.02.046     Document Type: Article

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