Clinical characteristics of patients with obstructive coronary lesions in the absence of coronary calcification: An evaluation by coronary CT angiography

Heart

Volumn 95, Issue 13, 2009, Pages 1056-1060

  Marwan, M ^a,b   Ropers, D ^a   Pflederer, T ^a   Daniel, W G ^a   Achenbach, S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ERLANGEN NUREMBERG   (Germany)

^b Innere Medizin   (Germany)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

CONTRAST MEDIUM;

ACUTE CORONARY SYNDROME; ADULT; AGED; ANGIOCARDIOGRAPHY; ARTERY CALCIFICATION; ARTICLE; CARDIOVASCULAR RISK; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL EVALUATION; CLINICAL FEATURE; COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHIC ANGIOGRAPHY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORONARY ARTERY OBSTRUCTION; CORONARY CALCIFICATION; FEMALE; HEART INFARCTION; HUMAN; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK ASSESSMENT; ST SEGMENT ELEVATION;

ADULT; AGE FACTORS; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CALCINOSIS; CORONARY ANGIOGRAPHY; CORONARY STENOSIS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK FACTORS; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 67649586800     PISSN: 13556037     EISSN: 1468201X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/hrt.2008.153353     Document Type: Article

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