Alternative treatments for angina

Heart

Volumn 93, Issue 5, 2007, Pages 544-546

  Lanza, Gaetano A ^a  

^a CATHOLIC UNIVERSITY   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANGIOGENIC FACTOR; VIRUS VECTOR;

ANGINA PECTORIS; CORONARY ARTERY BYPASS SURGERY; COUNTERPULSATION; EDITORIAL; HEART MUSCLE REVASCULARIZATION; HUMAN; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPINAL CORD STIMULATION; SURVIVAL; CHRONIC DISEASE; COLLATERAL CIRCULATION; ELECTROSTIMULATION THERAPY; EXPERIMENTAL THERAPY; LASER SURGERY; METHODOLOGY; NOTE; PHYSIOLOGY;

ANGINA PECTORIS; CHRONIC DISEASE; COLLATERAL CIRCULATION; COUNTERPULSATION; ELECTRIC STIMULATION THERAPY; HUMANS; LASER SURGERY; MYOCARDIAL REVASCULARIZATION; THERAPIES, INVESTIGATIONAL;

EID: 34247846183     PISSN: 13556037     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/hrt.2006.105916     Document Type: Editorial

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