Novel insights into an old controversy: Is coronary artery ectasia a variant of coronary atherosclerosis?

Clinical Research in Cardiology

Volumn 96, Issue 6, 2007, Pages 331-339

  Yetkin, Ertan ^a   Waltenberger, Johannes ^a  

^a MAASTRICHT UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Atherosclerosis; Coronary artery disease; Coronary artery ectasia

Indexed keywords

ANTITHROMBOCYTIC AGENT; BETA ADRENERGIC RECEPTOR BLOCKING AGENT;

AORTA; CARDIOVASCULAR RISK; CORONARY ARTERY ATHEROSCLEROSIS; CORONARY ARTERY DILATATION; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; CORONARY ARTERY ECTASIA; CORONARY STENT; EPICARDIUM; EXTRACELLULAR MATRIX; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; INFLAMMATION; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PERIPHERAL VEIN; PROGNOSIS; REVIEW; RISK FACTOR;

CORONARY ANGIOGRAPHY; CORONARY ARTERIOSCLEROSIS; CORONARY VESSELS; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; DILATATION, PATHOLOGIC; HUMANS; PROGNOSIS; RISK FACTORS; STATISTICS;

EID: 34248996901     PISSN: 18610684     EISSN: 18610692     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00392-007-0521-0     Document Type: Review

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