Increased high sensitive CRP level and its significance in pathogenesis of slow coronary flow

Angiology

Volumn 58, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 401-407

  Barutcu, Irfan ^a,d   Sezgin, Alpay Turan ^b   Sezgin, Nurzen ^b   Gullu, Hakan ^c   Esen, Ali Metin ^a   Topal, Ergun ^c   Ozdemir, Ramazan ^c   Kosar, Feridun ^c   Cehreli, Sengul ^c  

^a AFYON KOCATEPE UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

^b BASKENT UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

^c INONU UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

^d NONE   (Turkey)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

C REACTIVE PROTEIN;

ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; ANGIOCARDIOGRAPHY; ARTERIAL PRESSURE; ARTICLE; BLOOD CLOT LYSIS; BLOOD SAMPLING; BODY MASS; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORONARY ARTERY BLOOD FLOW; CORONARY ARTERY CIRCUMFLEX BRANCH; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; FEMALE; HEART EJECTION FRACTION; HEART INFARCTION; HUMAN; INFLAMMATION; LEFT ANTERIOR DESCENDING CORONARY ARTERY; MALE; PATHOGENESIS; RIGHT CORONARY ARTERY; SEX; SLOW CORONARY FLOW; VASCULAR DISEASE;

BIOLOGICAL MARKERS; C-REACTIVE PROTEIN; CORONARY ANGIOGRAPHY; CORONARY CIRCULATION; CORONARY DISEASE; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEPHELOMETRY AND TURBIDIMETRY; PROGNOSIS; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX;

EID: 34548137015     PISSN: 00033197     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0003319707304943     Document Type: Article

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