Is slow coronary flow associated with inflammation?

Medical Hypotheses

Volumn 66, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 504-508

  Li, Jian Jun ^a   Xu, Bo ^a   Li, Zi Cheng ^b   Qian, Jie ^a   Wei, Bing Qi ^a  

^a FUWAI HOSPITAL   (China)

^b JINAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACUTE HEART INFARCTION; ANGINA PECTORIS; ARTICLE; ATHEROSCLEROSIS; BLOOD FLOW VELOCITY; CORONARY ARTERY BLOOD FLOW; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; EXPERIMENTAL MODEL; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; INFLAMMATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; QUALITY OF LIFE; THROMBOCYTE DISORDER; VASCULAR DISEASE; VASOCONSTRICTION; VASODILATATION;

ANGIOGRAPHY; ANIMALS; BLOOD FLOW VELOCITY; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASES; CORONARY DISEASE; HUMANS; INFLAMMATION; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MODELS, THEORETICAL;

EID: 30344461274     PISSN: 03069877     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.mehy.2005.09.028     Document Type: Article

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