Common carotid artery intima-media thickness and intracranial pulsatility index in non-ST-elevation acute coronary syndromes

Cerebrovascular Diseases

Volumn 24, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 338-342

  Tello Montoliu, Antonio ^a   Moltó, José M ^a   López Hernández, Nicolás ^a   García Medina, Ana ^a   Roldán, Vanessa ^b   Sogorb, Francisco ^a   Lip, Gregory Y H ^c   Marín, Francisco ^a  

^a HOSPITAL GENERAL UNIVERSITARIO DE ALICANTE   (Spain)

^b HOSPITAL MORALES MESEGUER   (Spain)

^c UNIVERSITY DEPARTMENT OF MEDICINE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Acute coronary syndrome, outcome; Common carotid intima media thickness; Doppler Pulsatility Index; Vascular risk factors

Indexed keywords

ACUTE CORONARY SYNDROME; AGED; ARTICLE; CARDIOVASCULAR PARAMETERS; COMMON CAROTID ARTERY INTIMA MEDIA THICKNESS; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION COEFFICIENT; DEATH; DIABETES MELLITUS; DOPPLER ECHOGRAPHY; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HUMAN; INTRACRANIAL PULSATILITY INDEX; LOGISTIC REGRESSION ANALYSIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MIDDLE CEREBRAL ARTERY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECURRENT DISEASE; REVASCULARIZATION;

ACUTE CORONARY SYNDROME; ADULT; AGE FACTORS; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CAROTID ARTERY, COMMON; CEREBROVASCULAR CIRCULATION; DIABETES COMPLICATIONS; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; LOGISTIC MODELS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MIDDLE CEREBRAL ARTERY; ODDS RATIO; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODELS; PULSATILE FLOW; RECURRENCE; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTORS; TIME FACTORS; TUNICA INTIMA; TUNICA MEDIA; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, DOPPLER; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, DOPPLER, TRANSCRANIAL;

EID: 34748891172     PISSN: 10159770     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000106979     Document Type: Article

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