Chronic inflammatory status in patients with coronary artery ectasia

Cytokine

Volumn 46, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 61-64

  Li, Jian Jun ^a   Nie, Shao Ping ^b   Qian, Xue Wen ^a   Zeng, He Song ^c   Zhang, Chao Yang ^a  

^a FUWAI HOSPITAL   (China)

^b CAPITAL MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c HUAZHONG UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (China)

Author keywords

C reactive protein; Coronary artery ectasia; Inflammation; Interleukin 6

Indexed keywords

C REACTIVE PROTEIN; INTERLEUKIN 6;

ADULT; ANGIOCARDIOGRAPHY; ARTICLE; CHRONIC INFLAMMATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; CORONARY ARTERY ECTASIA; ENZYME LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; FEMALE; HUMAN; LEUKOCYTE; LEUKOCYTE COUNT; LYMPHOCYTE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MONOCYTE; NEUTROPHIL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SMOKING;

ADULT; ANGIOGRAPHY; C-REACTIVE PROTEIN; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; CORONARY ANGIOGRAPHY; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; DILATATION, PATHOLOGIC; ENZYME-LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFLAMMATION; INTERLEUKIN-6; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; NEUTROPHILS;

EID: 62749159697     PISSN: 10434666     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cyto.2008.12.012     Document Type: Article

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