Hyperhomocysteinemia and recurrent carotid stenosis

BMC Cardiovascular Disorders

Volumn 8, Issue , 2008, Pages

  Hillenbrand, Renata ^a   Hillenbrand, Andreas ^a   Liewald, Florian ^b   Zimmermann, Julian ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ULM   (Germany)

^b Clinic Esslingen   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACETYLSALICYLIC ACID; ANTICOAGULANT AGENT; ANTITHROMBOCYTIC AGENT; CLOPIDOGREL; PHENPROCOUMON; BIOLOGICAL MARKER; HOMOCYSTEINE;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; ATHEROSCLEROSIS; BODY WEIGHT; CAROTID ARTERY OBSTRUCTION; CAROTID ENDARTERECTOMY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIABETES MELLITUS; DOPPLER ECHOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMAN; HYPERHOMOCYSTEINEMIA; HYPERLIPIDEMIA; HYPERTENSION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN BLOOD LEVEL; RESTENOSIS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTOR; THROMBOSIS; TOBACCO DEPENDENCE; AGE; BLOOD; CASE CONTROL STUDY; ECHOGRAPHY; FOLLOW UP; HOSPITALIZATION; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; PROBABILITY; RECURRENT DISEASE; REFERENCE VALUE; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SEX DIFFERENCE; STENOSIS, OCCLUSION AND OBSTRUCTION;

AGE FACTORS; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BIOLOGICAL MARKERS; CAROTID STENOSIS; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; CONSTRICTION, PATHOLOGIC; ENDARTERECTOMY, CAROTID; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HOMOCYSTEINE; HUMANS; HYPERHOMOCYSTEINEMIA; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PROBABILITY; RECURRENCE; REFERENCE VALUES; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK ASSESSMENT; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; SEX FACTORS; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, DOPPLER, DUPLEX;

EID: 39549084703     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712261     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2261-8-1     Document Type: Article

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