Widespread myocardial inflammation and infarct-related artery patency

Circulation

Volumn 110, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 46-50

  Abbate, Antonio ^a,e   Bonanno, Elena ^b   Mauriello, Alessandro ^b   Bussani, Rossana ^c   Biondi Zoccai, Giuseppe G L ^a   Liuzzo, Giovanna ^a   Leone, Antonio Maria ^a   Silvestri, Furio ^c   Dobrina, Aldo ^c   Baldi, Feliciano ^d   Pandolfi, Franco ^a   Biasucci, Luigi M ^a   Baldi, Alfonso ^d   Spagnoli, Luigi G ^b   Crea, Filippo ^a  

^a CATHOLIC UNIVERSITY   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ROME TOR VERGATA   (Italy)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TRIESTE   (Italy)

^d SECOND UNIVERSITY OF NAPLES   (Italy)

^e NONE   (United States)

Author keywords

Immune system; Inflammation; Lymphocytes; Myocardial infarction

Indexed keywords

CD3 ANTIGEN; HLA DR ANTIGEN;

ACUTE HEART INFARCTION; AGED; ARTERY OCCLUSION; ARTICLE; CONFOCAL MICROSCOPY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; FEMALE; HEART INFARCTION; HEART MUSCLE ISCHEMIA; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; IMMUNE RESPONSE; IMMUNOSTIMULATION; MALE; MYOCARDITIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; T LYMPHOCYTE ACTIVATION; VASCULAR PATENCY;

AGED; CORONARY VESSELS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MYOCARDIAL INFARCTION; MYOCARDITIS; RECURRENCE; SYNDROME; T-LYMPHOCYTES; VASCULAR PATENCY;

EID: 3042818243     PISSN: 00097322     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1161/01.CIR.0000133316.92316.81     Document Type: Article

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