Conservative medication follow-up for over 20 years of a patient with ischemic heart disease after diagnosis of chronic total occlusion of the 3 main coronary arteries

Circulation Journal

Volumn 72, Issue 7, 2008, Pages 1205-1209

  Tanaka, Shinichiro ^a   Yokoyama, Chiharu ^a   Kawamura, Itta ^a   Takasugi, Nobuhiro ^a   Kubota, Tomoki ^a   Ushikoshi, Hiroaki ^a   Aoyama, Takuma ^a   Kawasaki, Masanori ^a   Nishigaki, Kazuhiko ^a   Takemura, Genzou ^a   Minatoguchi, Shinya ^a  

^a GIFU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Coronary artery disease; Drugs; Ischemia; Occlusion

Indexed keywords

ACETYLSALICYLIC ACID; ATENOLOL; ENALAPRIL; GLICLAZIDE; ISOSORBIDE DINITRATE; METFORMIN; NIFEDIPINE; PRAVASTATIN; TICLOPIDINE;

ACUTE CORONARY SYNDROME; ADULT; ANGINA PECTORIS; ANGIOCARDIOGRAPHY; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; COLLATERAL CIRCULATION; CONGESTIVE HEART FAILURE; CORONARY ARTERY; CORONARY ARTERY ATHEROSCLEROSIS; CORONARY ARTERY BYPASS GRAFT; FOLLOW UP; HEART ARRHYTHMIA; HEART CATHETERIZATION; HEART INFARCTION; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE EJECTION FRACTION; HUMAN; ISCHEMIC HEART DISEASE; MALE; PERCUTANEOUS CORONARY INTERVENTION; TIME SERIES ANALYSIS;

ACUTE CORONARY SYNDROME; ADMINISTRATION, SUBLINGUAL; ANGINA PECTORIS; ANTIHYPERTENSIVE AGENTS; CHRONIC DISEASE; COLLATERAL CIRCULATION; CORONARY ANGIOGRAPHY; CORONARY VESSELS; DRUG THERAPY, COMBINATION; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; HUMANS; HYPOGLYCEMIC AGENTS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MYOCARDIAL ISCHEMIA; NITROGLYCERIN; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; TIME FACTORS; TOMOGRAPHY, EMISSION-COMPUTED, SINGLE-PHOTON; VASODILATOR AGENTS;

EID: 46849100014     PISSN: 13469843     EISSN: 13474820     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1253/circj.72.1205     Document Type: Article

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