Acute myocardial infarction, ischemic stroke, sympathetic stress, and inflammation: Birds of a feather

Stroke

Volumn 37, Issue 10, 2006, Pages 2449-2450

  Suarez, Jose I ^a  

^a CASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACUTE CORONARY SYNDROME; ACUTE HEART INFARCTION; ATHEROSCLEROSIS; ATHEROSCLEROTIC PLAQUE; BLOOD CLOTTING; CARDIOVASCULAR RISK; CEREBROVASCULAR ACCIDENT; EDITORIAL; HEART FUNCTION; HEART MUSCLE REVASCULARIZATION; HUMAN; INFLAMMATION; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STRESS; SYMPATHETIC TONE; THROMBOSIS;

ACUTE DISEASE; ADRENERGIC BETA-ANTAGONISTS; ANGIOPLASTY, TRANSLUMINAL, PERCUTANEOUS CORONARY; BRAIN ISCHEMIA; C-REACTIVE PROTEIN; HEART; HUMANS; INFLAMMATION; MYOCARDIAL INFARCTION; MYOCARDIAL REVASCULARIZATION; REGISTRIES; RISK; SYMPATHETIC NERVOUS SYSTEM; THROMBOLYTIC THERAPY; TIME FACTORS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 33748991435     PISSN: 00392499     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1161/01.STR.0000242802.13557.2d     Document Type: Editorial

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