Quantification of coronary calcification by intravascular ultrasound - Do calcium deposits with larger arcs have longer lengths?

Circulation Journal

Volumn 71, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 530-535

  Ehara, Shoichi ^a   Kobayashi, Yoshiki ^a   Kataoka, Toru ^a   Yoshiyama, Minoru ^a   Ueda, Makiko ^a   Yoshikawa, Junichi ^b  

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

^b Osaka Ekisaikai Hospital   (Japan)

Author keywords

Calcium; Coronary artery disease; Ultrasonics

Indexed keywords

CALCIUM; GLYCERYL TRINITRATE;

ACUTE HEART INFARCTION; ADULT; AGED; ARTERY CALCIFICATION; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; DEMOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HEART INJURY; HUMAN; INTRAVASCULAR ULTRASOUND; LEFT ANTERIOR DESCENDING CORONARY ARTERY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; STABLE ANGINA PECTORIS; UNSTABLE ANGINA PECTORIS;

AGED; CALCINOSIS; CALCIUM; CARDIOMYOPATHIES; CORONARY ARTERIOSCLEROSIS; CORONARY VESSELS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, INTERVENTIONAL;

EID: 34047169251     PISSN: 13469843     EISSN: 13474820     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1253/circj.71.530     Document Type: Article

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