Intermediate fixed coronary artery stenosis at the site of ergonovine-provoked spasm as a predictor of long-term major adverse cardiac events of patients with coronary spastic angina

Circulation Journal

Volumn 73, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 699-704

  Nishizawa, Shinya ^a   Shiraishi, Jun ^b   Torii, Sayuki ^b   Miyagawa, Kotaro ^b   Arihara, Masayasu ^b   Hadase, Mitsuyoshi ^b   Hyogo, Masayuki ^b   Yagi, Takakazu ^b   Shima, Takatomo ^b   Kohno, Yoshio ^b   Matsubara, Hiroaki ^a  

^a KYOTO PREFECTURAL UNIVERSITY OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^b KYOTO FIRST RED CROSS HOSPITAL   (Japan)

Author keywords

Coronary spastic angina; Major adverse cardiac events (MACE); Prognosis

Indexed keywords

ACETYLSALICYLIC ACID; ANGIOTENSIN RECEPTOR ANTAGONIST; CALCIUM CHANNEL BLOCKING AGENT; DIPEPTIDYL CARBOXYPEPTIDASE INHIBITOR; ERGOMETRINE; HYDROXYMETHYLGLUTARYL COENZYME A REDUCTASE INHIBITOR; NICORANDIL; NITRATE;

ACUTE HEART INFARCTION; ADULT; AGED; ANGIOCARDIOGRAPHY; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORONARY ARTERY OBSTRUCTION; CORONARY ARTERY SPASM; CORONARY RISK; CORONARY SPASTIC ANGINA; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; EVENT FREE SURVIVAL; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HEART ARRHYTHMIA; HEART FAILURE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PERCUTANEOUS CORONARY INTERVENTION; PROGNOSIS; SUDDEN DEATH; SURVIVAL RATE; SURVIVAL TIME; UNSTABLE ANGINA PECTORIS;

AGED; ANGINA PECTORIS; CORONARY STENOSIS; CORONARY VESSELS; DISEASE-FREE SURVIVAL; ERGONOVINE; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OXYTOCICS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SPASM; SURVIVAL RATE;

EID: 65649132657     PISSN: 13469843     EISSN: 13474820     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1253/circj.CJ-08-0774     Document Type: Article

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