Endothelial functional and structural impairment in patients with different degrees of coronary artery disease development

Heart and Vessels

Volumn 23, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 308-315

  Simova, Iana ^a   Denchev, Stefan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL ALEXANDROVSKA   (Bulgaria)

Author keywords

Atherosclerosis; Coronary artery disease; Correlation; Flow mediated dilatation; Intima media thickness; Prognostic significance

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANGIOCARDIOGRAPHY; ARTERIAL WALL THICKNESS; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; CORONARY ARTERY OBSTRUCTION; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DISEASE SEVERITY; ENDOTHELIAL DYSFUNCTION; EXERCISE TEST; FEMALE; FLOW MEDIATED ENDOTHELIAL DEPENDENT VASODILATATION; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; VASODILATATION;

BLOOD FLOW VELOCITY; BRACHIAL ARTERY; CAROTID ARTERY, COMMON; CORONARY ANGIOGRAPHY; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; DISEASE PROGRESSION; ENDOTHELIUM, VASCULAR; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PROGNOSIS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; TUNICA INTIMA; VASODILATION;

EID: 53149152247     PISSN: 09108327     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00380-008-1054-9     Document Type: Article

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