Is chronic nitrate therapy associated with a different clinical presentation of acute coronary syndrome?;A terapêutica crónica com nitratos está associada a uma diferente apresentação clínica de síndroma coronária aguda?

Revista Portuguesa de Cardiologia

Volumn 26, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 135-143

  Timóteo, Ana Teresa ^a,b   Mamede, Andreia ^a   Ferreira, Maria De Lurdes ^a   Serra, José ^a   Oliveira, José Alberto ^a   Ferreira, Rui Cruz ^a   Quininha, Jorge ^a  

^a HOSPITAL DE SANTA MARTA   (Portugal)

^b Edifício C 9A ^*  (Portugal)

Author keywords

Acute coronary syndromes; Nitrates; Preconditioning

Indexed keywords

NITRATE;

ACUTE CORONARY SYNDROME; ARTICLE; CIGARETTE SMOKING; CONTROLLED STUDY; DRUG USE; FEMALE; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; REVASCULARIZATION; ST SEGMENT ELEVATION;

ACUTE DISEASE; AGED; ANGINA, UNSTABLE; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MYOCARDIAL INFARCTION; NITRATES; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SYNDROME;

EID: 34247264999     PISSN: 08702551     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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